Let’s say you want to automatically email some screen captures to a friend in a series of steps or events. You can specify all your basic email settings to be pre-populated in your default email program.

• Recipient Name
• Recipient Email
• Message Subject
• Message Text

You may wonder the types of situations you’d want to always email the same person. With so many photo sharing services, you might want to send your images there. You could send to a service like this or anywhere else you can think of to send your image.

In order to setup your default email settings to work like this you need to do a couple of things. One you need to be sure and tell Snagit to NOT preview your captures in the editor first. You can access these settings in a variety of ways, but I usually right-click on the Snagit icon in my task tray and modify the settings there.

On a side-note, I found out that it’s impossible to grab a screen shot of the settings window of Snagit itself. Pretty interesting eh?

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Using Snagit’s Auto-Email Features

I immediately wondered if he or if it was known by everyone else that you can save any PowerPoint slide or entire slide deck as an image file.

Depending on what you’d need to use an image of a slide for, PowerPoint provides the ability to save it in just about any format you’d like or need.

Currently you can save images in the following formats: .gif, .jpg, .png, .tif, .bmp, .wmf

Once you’ve got it in this format you can export your slide deck to other services, import a slide into a video edit perhaps or even build an eBook out of what you’ve already presented once before. It could even be as simple of a problem as the person you want to share the presentation with doesn’t have PowerPoint and doesn’t want to install a special viewer. I’m pretty sure everyone’s computer can open one of the file formats above.

The next time you want to grab your PowerPoint as an image, as good as Snagit is, don’t use it. Just save your slide as an image.

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Exporting PowerPoint Slidedecks to Image Files

My Top Graphic Program Icons

• Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004:
  Granted Macromedia was purchased by Adobe at the end of 2005, this was the last version of the software I purchased before Macromedia and Adobe joined forces. I use it for any major graphic design work that requires some special effects, or layering of images. I’m not the highly skilled professional, but this program does more than I’m even coming close to maximizing what can be done.
• Snagit from Techsmith:
  Snagit has become a core application in my toolbox of development work. It’s so much more than just a screen capture utility. It helps me grab images for mock-up work, practicing with edits as well as documenting the work and efforts I’m taking for my clients.
• Irfanview:
  This is a free tool that has also become a worthy addition to the list of applications that have been added to the short list of must-install software on a new computer or a rebuild.
• Paint.NET:
  Another free tool that I think starts to really expand the features and functionality of what can be expected to be found in a free application.
• Picasa3:
  Although I wouldn’t really classify it as an image editing program, it does have some features that a beginner user would find helpful. However, I include it in my list because of it’s image management and library functionality.

I haven’t gone into detail about the features and functionality of each program, I’ve just listed them here as a heads-up for some applications you may want to read more about yourself if you’re not familiar with them already.

If you already use these programs or are just starting, let me know what you think about each of them in the comments.

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My Favorite Graphics Programs