Check Out These 4 Skitch Features
Kickin' it with Skitch
The thing that sets Plasq's Skitch apart from the competition are those special Skitch features you can't get anywhere else when you want to capture on-screen content.
Other articles discuss what Skitch is (a way to save, annotate and share images) but below you'll find a more detailed take on some of Skitch's more exciting features, which will really win you over to the, er, pink side of the force. (Skitch's logo is a funky pink heart).
4 Reasons to Try Skitch
1. Website Sharing
One of the cooler Skitch features? Quickly and easily sharing shots from a website with friends. Skitch lets you take a screenshot of a section of a website, crop it, alter it, draw on it -- whatever -- and then drag it straight into an email application without any saving, resizing, etc. You can even grab a code and publish the screenshot to your blog, website or Facebook.
2. Quick Accessibility
Simply clicking "photos" on top of the Skitch window gives you instant access to all of the photos stored on your hard drive. It also opens a history containing every screenshot or altered photo you've worked with, giving you easy access in the future.
3. Easy Movement
Skitch features a "drag me" option on any photo you're working with. That means instead of going to the trouble of saving and exporting files, you can just use the "drag" function to move the photo to an email, your desktop, a file, or wherever else you want to take it.
4. Fun Features
As we've said before, Skitch isn't really meant to be a photo-editing suite. You'll need iPhoto or another program to do any serious editing. Skitch does let you draw on your pictures and add text -- one of the few editing tools that iPhoto lacks.
You can even do some minor touch-ups with Skitch that are more difficult with iPhoto. For example, bunnies get notoriously bad red-eye in photographs, which would require a ton of red-eye removal and a bit of touch-up, which leaves the eye looking blurry.
Using Skitch, I can fill in that eye and revert to its actual dark color.
It might not be perfect, but it's better than a glowing red coal for an eye -- or, alternatively, a smudgy cataract.
Plasq's beta version of Skitch, which is available to both Mac and PC users, is a lot of fun to work with, and you're bound to enjoy checking out the many features it has to offer.
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