Here’s a quick and easy fun tip for working with SnagIt, the screen capture program of choice for most bloggers and web designers.  This program has probably been the best buy for about $30 that I have made in the last couple of years.  Its excellent if I want to add an image to a mind map, powerpoint, or to a blog article (like the images below).  It only takes about 30 seconds, and if I like I can even push the image out to Photoshop and do some more advanced work.

SnagIt has a number of accessories and stamps for SnagIt to help both automate your work a bit more and to add more options when you put together your images.

I just picked up about a dozen of these stamps (they are free btw).  The call out options and the keyboard stamps are two that I suspect I will get a lot of mileage out of.  I create a large number of callouts in pictures and for my tutorial work, I think it will help to be able to explicitly provide an image of the exact key as opposed to typing something like ‘tab’ key.

Here’s the link, If you want to check out some of these SnagIt Accessories . 

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This week I am reviewing an issue that I noticed with MindManager Pro 7.  It specifically relates to the export of a map into a PowerPoint Presentation.

I’m still trying to document the situation, but wanted to take an initial attempt to describe the issue.

When I have a topic with say 3 sub topics below it and one of those sub topics is just an image, the image will not export to PowerPoint with the other sub topics.

Instead, I must select on that single topic with the image and click the link to add a new slide, just for that image.

Also, I cannot have any text included with the image on any topic, if I want the text to export to Powerpoint.

I have noticed that MindManager seems to work fine, when its generating a mindmap image, but not when its exporting an image.

I first noticed this when I was working on a client web site that specializes in drug rehab, but couldn’t quite put my finger on the problem as I thought it was just a fluke on a presentation with just a single picture.  Today, when I was working on a separate presentation for a different customer with a dozen or so images in the mindmap, I noticed that the problem happened consistently.

As I mentioned, I’m still working to identify the parameters of the issue, and I’m hoping to capture it on video.

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