Tools and screen draw tools Property Valuer blue mountains and boxes and all the little things that turn a regular video into a professional quality video and from a communication standpoint you really cannot do any better than sending a video to someone to show them how a system is supposed to operate to explain.
something to highlight exactly what you’ve just written down on the spec what I will actually do with Camtasia is write a spec I’ll do a screenshot and then I will record the entire spec going through step by step item by item screenshot by screenshot and explain what everything means now I’ve got it covered in writing I have it covered as a screenshot and I have a covered in video because i really want to over communicate what I want from my service providers and in this case is usually
software engineers now for graphical work I like to use Snagit Snagit is obviously never going to be as powerful as something like Photoshop but if you’re not a professional graphic artist Snagit is a great compromise tool because it makes it really easy to take screenshots and then manipulate it move it around add components combine components of your screenshots you can add annotations you can put text in there you can do all sorts of different things for these images and it’s not a bad photo editor it’s just not as good as Photoshop it’s not as powerful and you can’t do as many things but for most people it’s an excellent tool because it’s more powerful than the very basic tools like paint and it’s not as complicated
as Photoshop but if you want to capture a screenshot off your computer or multiple screenshots from your computer and combine them with other graphics or to make a mock-up that you will then give to your graphic designer so that they can take that and turn it into the finished product Snagit is a great tool for that purpose so let me go ahead and show you an example of what I started with gave it to the graphic designers and then what they converted my screenshot into after they saw my mock-up and after i created a Camtasia video to explain