Screenshots of part of your screen
Suppose you see an interesting picture on Facebook- Simply open Skitch, click Snap and draw a rectangle around the picture
- Click File > Export to name it
- Save in your pictures folder
- Then use the graphics feature to make all sort of interesting markups including text
Free screen recorder
With this free screen recorder you can
- Capture part of your computer screen
- Add arrows
- Make simple sketches
- Add text
- Change the size of the text with the slider
- Draw squares
- Draw circles
- Change colors
- Fill in a shape with solid color
YouTube video
Watch the 2-minute YouTube video explaining Skitch
Where to get Skitch
Download Skitch free from Evernote website
Why is Skitch free?
- Evernote makes and distributes a number of products to improve your work
- If they give away such an amazing product as Skitch, they can attract people to their website to see their other products
- After you have made hundreds of screenshots, they will start charging you.
Evernote Web Clipper
One of their more interesting products is Evernote Web Clipper. With it you can
- Clip an article
- Simplify the article by stripping away the clutter
- Save a URL, image or part of an article with a bookmark to the entire article
- Take screenshots
- Pixelate personal information
- Annotate the screenshot
- Add alarms to receive an email with the information at a specific time & date
- Organize the web clips
- And more.
Below is a YouTube video about the Evernote Web Clipper