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Work with screenshots? Blue Mango’s Screensteps is your friend!
5 CommentsGood morning all,
Most of us from time to time need to capture screenshots and paste them into documents – either for instructional guides, tutorials, illustrations … or even blog posts! I’d gotten pretty good with my image editor of choice (Macromedia Fireworks) but a few months ago I came across an application that was so good and so useful I bought & registered it within the first few minutes I started using it. That software is Screensteps Desktop by Blue Mango Learning Systems.
Full disclosure: I have no connection whatsoever to this company, have never communicated with them, have not received (and will not accept) any compensation of any kind for this review. I’m just a happy customer spreading the word about a product that works for me. I feel obligated to point this out since I rarely endorse a commercial product!
Yes, if you’ve ever pasted a screenshot into a Word document, fiddled with annotations, resizing, placement, etc., you will LOVE what Screensteps Desktop can do for you. Here’s an example:
The image above was captured in seconds, annotated in Screensteps in seconds via their intuitive, flexible interface, then uploaded directly to my blog for use in this post! What could be easier?
Here’s a video explaining its features and functions:
Screensteps Desktop is commercial software. At $33.96 for the “Standard” version, and $67.95 for the “Pro” flavor (that’s their academic pricing, 15% off retail), it’s certainly not cheap – but the software works so well and is so easy to use that in my view it’s absolutely worth the money. You can compare Screensteps Standard and Pro features here.
The possibilities for this software in the classroom are endless. Instructional aids, interactive worksheets (it can export to HTML!), how-to manuals, you name it … if it includes a screenshot, it’ll be WAY easier to make (and look more professional) if you use Screensteps Desktop. Since it’s cross-platform, you can use it on your Mac and your PC (which is crucial for me). It’s just a handy application I could not do without! Take a look and decide for yourself; the software is free to try for 30 days!
Hope this helps!
-kj-
Published on December 15, 2009 · Filed under: Software;
5 Responses to “Work with screenshots? Blue Mango’s Screensteps is your friend!”
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No need to pay for this on the Mac. We already have , which does pretty much all of this, but for free.
See my example from Web 2.0 Wednesday a while back here.
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No need to pay for this on the Mac. We already have Skitch, which does pretty much all of this, but for free.
See my example from Web 2.0 Wednesday a while back here.
Oops, messed up my tag on the last post.
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Ah! Wiseguy, eh? ;-) I guess that’s why I don’t use Skitch, though I am familiar with it, I’m mostly a PC guy. I rock a Macbook Pro so the all cool kids will talk to me…lol
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@Kevin – Thanks for the kind words. We appreciate the review.
@Dan – I am one of the developers of ScreenSteps. You might want to take a look at ScreenSteps a little more closely before you assume that Skitch is the same type of application. Skitch is agreat app which I use occasionally. But it is mainly geared towards capturing images and sharing them online or pasting them into documents you create.
ScreenSteps integrates the capture and the authoring process. It is more geared towards creating tutorials and how-to guides. They really are very different products.
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hahahaha – pwned. :-)
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