Edit Your Captures
Learn how to edit images with Snagit Editor's powerful tools and effects.
Use Snagit Editor to preview, edit, and share your captures.
Note: This tutorial introduces options to edit images. To learn about options for video, see Edit a Video.
Open Snagit Editor
- Click the Open Editor button in the Capture window.
- In the Notifications area, right-click the Snagit icon and select Open Snagit Editor (Windows only).
Snagit Editor Overview
 Library | The Snagit Library stores your capture history, including images, video recordings, and animated GIFs created with Snagit. Find captures by date, source, tags, and more. See Introduction to Snagit Library. |
 Create | Image from Template: Quickly create easy-to-follow visual guides for your team or customers. See Create Visual Guides with Templates. Video from Images: Narrate and mark up a set of images to show a process or share information. See Turn Your Screenshots into a Video. |
 Canvas | The canvas is the workspace to preview and edit captures. Tips for working on the canvas:
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 Toolbar | Click to select a tool to annotate, edit, and enhance image captures. Click More to access additional tools. See Snagit Tools. |
 Share | Click Copy All to copy and paste the selected image or video into another application. Click Share Link to upload a video or image to Screencast and copy a shareable link to your clipboard. See Share & Engage (Share Link). Click the Share dropdown to share to a specific app or save to your computer or cloud location. See Share Captures. |
 Quick Styles | Apply or save custom-made styles. See Quickly Access Favorite Styles and Tools. To hide or restore the Quick Styles and Properties panels, select View > Side Bar (Windows) or Sidebar (Mac). |
 Properties | Adjust properties such as color, font size, or shape to customize the selected tool. See Snagit Tools. |
 Effects | Click Effects to view available image effects, such as image border, torn edge, information about the capture, or color adjustment. See Add Effects. |
 Recent Captures Tray | The tray shows the recent image captures, video captures, and other files opened or edited in Snagit Editor. The thumbnail selected in the tray appears on the canvas in Snagit Editor. Click Hide Recent or Show Recent (Windows) or Recent (Mac) to hide or show the recent captures tray. See Recent Captures Tray. |
Note: This tutorial is for Snagit version 2024. Previous versions may look or function differently.
- To check your version, select Help menu (Windows) or Snagit menu (Mac) > About Snagit.
- If you have a previous version of Snagit, see tutorials for previous versions or upgrade to the latest version.
- For unexpected behavior with Snagit, visit the TechSmith Help Center.
