A Skitch in Time
Skitch is an immensely useful tool that looks like a toy, brought to you by the same guys responsible for that copy of “Comic Life” that comes with every Macbook and Macbook Pro.In case you missed it, Comic Life is a toy, even if I’ve seen it used to complete a homework assignment. It allows you to easily take pictures and lay them out as in a comic book, applying thought bubbles and speech balloons and other sundry effects.Skitch leverages the same expertise in taking an image and adding text to it, except that it does this with screenshots. I am talking a replacement for Instantshot or the built-in mac screenshot utilities. Why? Not only does Skitch make it easy to specify exactly what you are taking a screenshot of, it then makes it ridiculously easy to actually do something with it.Most of the time when I need a screenshot, I want to send it to someone to show them something. With other tools you need to dig into your “save” folder or desktop, open up the image in Photoshop/Preview/Pixelmator to resize it, resave it, etc. With Skitch, the snapshot instantly opens up, and then not only can I easily resize it, I can also annotate it:
Once the image is inside Skitch and you’ve added to it/resized it as needed, you can upload to a web account with one click, or click where it says “drag me” and dump it straight into an email, a folder, etc.In short, this is an incredible tool that allows you to not only quickly take screenshots, but then to manipulate them and use them how you need them right away without getting in your way about it.