Annotate - excellent skrinshoter for Mac with a pair of killer chips

In OS X is very cool features for taking screenshots, but if you need additional features and upload to the cloud, then there can not do without third-party applications. I recently discovered the Annotate, pretty interesting skrinshoter for adding to images different notes and even record screencasts as gifok, and then quickly share it all with colleagues.

All third-party application for taking screenshots there is a drawback - they are either too primitive or too functional. And in fact, and in another case it is easier to make and use the standard screenshot for editing "View." On the Annotate all very different: its developers are able to make a tool simple, but very attractive in terms of functionality, so they wanted to take advantage of.

Application meets us welcome screen, which immediately tells about their capabilities. There are four: is a screenshot of the screen area, a screenshot of a single window, edit the image from the clipboard and record screencasts. According to good tradition every action assigned to hotkeys. By the way, if you reconfigure them, you can not even be retrained with standard shortcuts.

Once you take a screenshot of the window, or selected area with the help of hot keys or through the appropriate menu item to open the editor window. It looks as follows.

Toolbar through which performs all image manipulations can be divided into three sections. On the left are the basic elements for annotating, center - their configuration options, and the right - customizable export menu.

In order not to clutter up the menu bar, the developers decided to group similar items. For instance, an arrow button also contains the line, but the selection tool oval area is hidden behind a selection rectangle. Another interesting point is associated with a range of additional tools: they are located in the pop-up menu, you need to "pull out".

Included is a arrows, lines, highlighting, add text, pixelization, as well as drawing and cutting. In general, all that is needed to create notes. A more or less unusual features Annotate boasts isolation region while dimming the rest of the frame. This is useful to focus on a particular object.

Paste the screenshot Emoji can, in principle, in any editor that lets you add text, but Annotate special button for this selection. Clicking on it immediately causes the system tray insert symbols, which, of course, more convenient.

Each added image element can be changed in size, or drag and drop, but if you want to do, for example, the arrow is larger, then it is better to use the zoom bar. It is located next to the palette of colors and has three fixed size.

When everything is ready, you can save a screenshot locally or upload it to the cloud (Dropbox and supported CloudApp). After loading the selected service, the link is automatically copied to the clipboard, and you can only send it to friends or colleagues. Also screenshots can tweet, post it on Facebook or send by email.

As a bonus, the developers Annotate give us the ability to record screencasts Small and save it in GIF. A useful feature that allows you to demonstrate this or that moment that occurs on the Mac screen. Just select the desired area of ​​the screen and press the record button. Of course, at SIFCO you can also add any notes or text. The only bad point is that the duration of 10 seconds screencast limited.

And finally, I left most lethal, as they say feature, which I really did not have enough for all third-party applications - is an instant export. If you use the "View", then you already know that all the manipulations made to the image are saved automatically when you close it. Ie no problems with exports, walks through the menus or use shortcuts - add arrows or release, shut the photo and all.

The Annotate this procedure is a little different, but it is just as fast. All business functions in Drag, which allows using the Option key is pressed to drag photos to any application or - attention! - on the desktop. That's what we need to save. The beauty!

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Given the availability of all necessary tools and convenient to organize the work with them, as well as additional features such as recording screencasts and rapid export, I can safely recommend Annotate for the installation and use of all who deal with screenshots. You can cool make your life easier and save a lot of time, especially as the price for these pleasures is not great. By the way, Annotate for iOS version is absolutely free and has similar functionality.