I don’t think it’s a secret among Snagit users that Snagit can have a great impact on your productivity. Many people I speak with use Snagit to explain things to people around them because it’s easier to explain with images and text instead of just using words.
But there are several things you can do to increase your productivity when using Snagit, and I’ll try to cover one item that really speeds up my work with Snagit.
To work faster and to simplify my work with Snagit I use the Quick Access Toolbar in the Snagit Editor. I have prepared a video showing you how to set up and add functionality to your toolbar.
The video is showcasing an older version of Snagit, but you set this up the same way in the current version.
This is the top bar you see in the editor. Most likely my toolbar has more icons than yours…
So why do I have so many? I have included more icons to simplify and speed up my work with Snagit and you can easily do the same. I have included the icons/commands that I use more often. Tasks and actions that I often repeat over and over again.
Furthermore I have included the icons in the order that I work. This is important because it helps me find them fast and to get a streamlined work flow when working with a lot of images. For example I often add Callouts before I resize or flatten my images.
So how do you go about setting up your Quick Access Toolbar
Click the round Snagit Icon in the upper left hand corner and choose the Editor options.
In the Snagit Editor window, go to Customize.
Here you can choose the Icons / Commands that you often need to access. Just locate your Command on the left hand section and click the Add button to move them to your Quick Access Toolbar.
To change the order of the commands in the toolbar just choose the Command you want to move in the right-hand side and click the up or down arrow to change positions.
You can also add separators to make it easier to overview your toolbar by choosing the command <Separator>.
That’s all there is to it. Now try this out for yourself and add some of the Commands that you use often to your Quick Access Toolbar. I promise you will find that it facilitates your work and increase your productivity.
Do you have any productivity tips for Snagit? I’d love to hear what you have to say. Please comment below both what you thought about this article and if you have any tips to boost productivity.
Until next time 😉
Peter – Your Snagit Guide
With all the many functions and features of Snagit, it really pays to set up the commands you frequently use in the Quick Access Toolbar to get the job done faster.
Wonderful tips! 🙂
I use Snagit for around 1 year, and your article is very interesting, and showed me things I don’t knew about Snagit.
Congrats!
Snagit is one of the tools I can’t live without. Your tips are not only helpful, they’re very much appreciated. This latest tip will help a lot!
Keep up the great job!
Hi …
Is there a fix yet for snagging the “rolling” window of a webpage? When will that be coming out?
Thank you
Doug
Thanks @Natalie, @Marcos and @Gary much appreciated comments!
Doug, are you referring to scrolling windows? This is because Firefox 3.6 has a problem with this. Revert to Firefox 3.58 or 3.59 and the scrolling capture should work fine.
Thanks for the great tip!
I use Snagit often in my work, and it really is a great Tool. I work with Autodesk products and recognise the Quick Acces Toolbar.
You can make Increase the Productivity further, just mark the command and Right Klick “Ad to Quick Acces Toolbar”
Best regards 😀
Pia
Thanks for the tips. I use Snagit everyday for work.
With all the many functions and features of Snagit, it really pays to set up the commands you frequently use in the Quick Access Toolbar to get the job done faster.
HI,
Thanks for being there..I use your product almost everyday..I noticed that when I want to record a video the picture is great but the sound isn’t..in fact there isn’t one..how do I fix this??
thanks
Saul
Your e-mail had a link that was supposed to go to “Greatly increase your Snagit Screen Recording Quality.” When I clicked on the link, I got an article which talks about increasing productivity. HOw can I get to the increasing quality article.
Hi Richard,
Sorry about that. Correct link to “Snagit Screen Recording Quality”:
http://77.104.138.121/~callouts/superstamps/499/snagit-better-video-recording/
Best,
Peter
Snagit is one of the tools I can’t live without. Your tips are not only helpful, they’re very much appreciated. This latest tip will help a lot!
Keep up the great job!
Thanks @Natalie, @Marcos and @Gary much appreciated comments!
Doug, are you referring to scrolling windows? This is because Firefox 3.6 has a problem with this. Revert to Firefox 3.58 or 3.59 and the scrolling capture should work fine.
Thanks @Natalie, @Marcos and @Gary much appreciated comments!
Doug, are you referring to scrolling windows? This is because Firefox 3.6 has a problem with this. Revert to Firefox 3.58 or 3.59 and the scrolling capture should work fine.
Snagit is one of the tools I can’t live without. Your tips are not only helpful, they’re very much appreciated. This latest tip will help a lot!
Keep up the great job!
With all the many functions and features of Snagit, it really pays to set up the commands you frequently use in the Quick Access Toolbar to get the job done faster.
I do like the Quick Access toolbar and also find it quite useful.
One thing I’m not seeing mentioned here is that you can relocate the Quick Access toolbar so it’s below the silly ribbon.
I find it helps my own productivity to relocate the Quick Access toolbar below the ribbon. That way it’s very near the image where I’m working anyway.
Happy Snagging all! Rick 🙂
Great tip Rick, thanks for sharing!
The Flags are very jolly but unlike the Callouts can’t be rotated freely, only flipped. Any possibility in future?
Hi Pipthirteen,
Yes, you are correct. Texts and Callouts can be rotated but Stamps cannot at this time. I am sure this is being worked on and we will see a future version with this functionality.
In the meantime there is a workaround. Just paste the Stamp you want to rotate on a transparent background of a new capture and rotate the whole image. That way you will rotate the callout and can then paste it in with the angle you want.
All the best,
Peter
Thank you, Peter — a most helpful work around.
Do you have any tips on how to use Snagit and UPK together?
Hi Sandy,
Can you expand, what are you referring to UPK? I am guessing I haven’t used it because I can’t figure out what it is 🙂
UPK is Oracle’s User Productivity Kit (UPK) software that is utilized to record screenshots and steps together while you are walking through a business process in either SAP, Oracle, or pretty much any application or Web-based scenario. The default screenshot editor is MS Paint. I configured my UPK to use SnagIt Editor.
When using Paint, in UPK I select the screen to be edited and MS Paint lauches with the screenshot in it. When I am finished with my edits, I close MS Paint and click save from the pop-up window. The edited screenshot now appears back in UPK.
When I do the same steps in SnagIt Editor, it wants to save to a file. Then when I close Editor, the old un-edited screenshot appears in UPK.
How do I correct this so the new edited image will come back into UPK?
Hello Ben,
Thank you for your post. I am not familiar with UPK, but I will attempt a guess. Probably the UPK screenshot is saved in a particular location and to get the updated/edited screenshot instead of the old one you have to save it with Snagit to the same location, with the same name. Try that, but be sure to take also save a backup of the original screenshot in case it doesn’t work out.
I hope that helps.
Peter
Hi,
Quick Access seems to be fine, but it is not going far enough.
Command like “Blur” and “Pixelate” need Parameters and there is no way to give this parameter to an quick access button. *This* would fasten my work!
Markus using Snagit 10.0.2 (due to the company)
Hi Markus,
You actually have both Smooth Blur and Pixelate Blur that can be added to the Quick Access bar and those have direct drop downs for intensity.