MacSnapper: Creating tutorials with style

MacSnapper is a great application for creating great easy to follow tutorials. MacSnapper even allows you to export your work into a PDF, HTML page, or to WordPress format. If you wanted to create an interesting and impressive tutorial for your blog or site, then MacSnapper is the application for you. I feel that the developer’s of MacSnapper were aiming to create an application specifically for creating step-by-step tutorials, manuals, kiosks, user guides or even personal notes. MacSnapper has an easy-to-use interface offering you tons of features to get the most out of the application.

So once you open up the application you will have the main window offering you a series of controls at the top to do such things as: Add Crop (Take a Screenshot), Add Window (Add Screenshot of a window), and  Add Desktop (Add a Screenshot of your whole desktop). The next series of controls would be to Select, Rect (Rectangle Shape), Line, Arrow, Circle, Blur, Highlight, Numbers and Text. Then at the top right hand corner, there is Book Setup, Export and Inspector. Of course the Inspector is possibly one of the most important things in every application, so it is handy to keep it open. Then on the left sidebar we have all the sections of the lesson that you are conduction at the time.

I really do like the layout and user interface of this application due to its ease of use and its style. But I thought I would make this article a lot more interesting by putting in some actual work from the application itself. So below this paragraph is a tutorial completely made from MacSnapper. It is not easy to put this into a post, but I did so by uploading the images and copying and pasting in the index.html file that MacSnapper produced. The tutorial below was created in MacSnapper.

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So as you can see the tutorial above made in MacSnapper is easy to follow due to the functions of highlighting, arrows, text and blurs which are all available in MacSnapper. In the first part of the tutorial above I used the Add crop button to take a screen shot, then I highlighted the comment area, then I put a black arrow pointing to it and added some text to the right of the arrow. In the second part of the tutorial I just simply cropped the screen shot, highlighted the “Submit Comment” button, put a red arrow pointing to the button and added some text to the right of the arrow. Also to mention I did blur out the fact that I was logged in, of course it is not a private thing, but I just wanted to show you the blur tool. Also to mention with the blur tool, you are able to adjust how sensitive you want the blur to be.

MacSnapper has many more useful features and really is the best application I have ever used when it comes to creating tutorials. One thing I would say that would make MacSnapper a lot better is if you could export your work as a image such as a JPG image or PNG image. But you do get the images available but you just have to search for them in the folders. Currently MacSnapper is retailed for for $49 and is worth the money if you need to produce tutorials on a regular basis. Kedisoft, the developers of MacSnapper also have other applications that are worth checking out.