While evaluating and reviewing TechSmith's Camtasia product, my curiosity got the better of me when I was exploring the CD they sent me, and I stumbled upon their image capture tool, Snag-It.

To be honest, I use many capture tools during the course of my day depending upon the task at hand. I've never really found one capture tool that had all the features I needed -- until maybe now. 

Snag-It absolutely takes the cake for image capture. Pound for pound it has more features than any other such tool I have come across to date.

To say that Snag-It is feature-rich is an under-statement, and I would need a great deal of room to explain all of its nuances. Rather than compare and contrast products in the same class, I want to focus on a few features that put Snag-It in a class of its own.

First, Snag-It enables you to capture and send the results to a file, the clipboard, the web, the printer or to an email all simultaneously. This means that once Snag-It is configured to your liking, you can capture and print all in the same mouse click -- repeatedly, over and over again. This feature is great for documentation where you are trying to describe how to use an application.

Second, the AutoScroll feature enables you to capture the image beyond the visible screen, so now you can capture a web page in its entirety in a single file instead of slicing and dicing a web page to bits.

Third, Snag-It has the ability to capture full motion, so you can create short movies to demonstrate how to use a feature of an application.

Lastly, Snag-It has built-in graphics editing and image annotation tools. You can capture an image and annotate it and edit it all from within Snag-It -- no third-party tools required.

All in all, when compared to other image capture tools, it's hard to beat Snag-It. To download a free trial, click here.