Webinar Recording: 5 Great Graphics Tools
by Beth on August 20, 2010
in Ave Z Webinar, Beth Favorite, Free, Worth Paying For
The first Cheapskate Freelancer webinar just ended, and I have to say the webinar platform, Dimdim, did what it said it would do. I’ll post a review of Dimdim in the near future.
In the meantime, enjoy the webinar recording. I covered five great (and free!) graphics tools: Picnik, GIMP, FotoFlexer, Aviary and SignGenerator.org.
The goal of these webinars is to cover a handful of tools in 30 minutes or less. Next month’s topic coming soon!
FastStone Screen Capture: Another way to avoid the “Print Screen” Button
Sigh. I guess it was bound to happen. I found a low-cost screen capture tool that competes with Jing, which is one of my all-time favorites.
FastStone Screen Capture comes in as an unobtrusive toolbar. You can capture windows, the full screen, a scrolling screen and a video with audio (see my sample below — I don’t think the audio recording is as good as Jing). In addition, when you capture something, you get a whole host of editing options to add a little more flair and details — Jing simply lets you annotate and draw arrows. And FastStone has a couple of extra handy tools like a screen magnifier plus a color picker (similar to another Beth Favorite, Pixie).
FastStone has a number of ways to export your capture, but I still prefer Jing’s integration with Screencast.com, which allows you to simply toss your capture online into your library without having to actually upload it.
Overall, I give FastStone an A- and still give Jing an A. But they’re both pretty darn cool and are infinitely better than your “Print Screen” Button.
FastStone Screen Capture – The Best Screen Capture Software.
Jing: Screen captures for free
by Beth on January 9, 2009
in Beth Favorite, Download, Free, Low-Cost
Have you ever done a screen capture by pressing Print Screen, pasting it somewhere, editing it and sending it off? One of my favorite new (free!) tools is Jing, a little application from TechSmith, which makes the screen capture process insanely easy.
Jing sits on your screen at all times in the form of a little yellow sun. You can click on the capture button to bring up cross hairs that allow you to capture the part of the screen you want. Then you can either create an image that you can add notes to, or a movie up to five minutes long! It rocks.
Another cool thing? Once you have the capture you want, you can save it to your computer or throw it up to your own private account at screencast.com. Then you send a link to see it.
