Screenshot and Screencast Reflections

I just finished with the screen shot and screen cast project and I guess my first thoughts upon finishing were: That was so much easier than I would imagine!

I chose to do the screen shots by Ctrl + Prnt Scrn option and pasting them to edit in PowerPoint. I had some issues at first because I was adding text boxes that were off the slide in the PowerPoint. But it was simple to save them as a JPEG and open that file when adding a picture to my blog. Flickr was fairly straight forward and easy to showcase some of the different features of the freeware.

I blogged about my webware review here.

I loved doing the tutorial- more than I thought I would. It was so much simpler than I imagined when I finally figured out ScreenToaster. I love that this application has a shortcut (Alt + S) to start and stop the video so you don't have to minimize the screen you are working in and manually stop the video. I was editing a photo in Gimp (an incredible tool that I'm glad I have discovered) and found that Alt +S is a shortcut within this program too, so it was difficult using this shortcut for ScreenToaster when it could be used to save the picture in the application I was working in. Other than that minor detail, I was just surprised at how much easier it was that I initially thought it would be.

There is my blog about the freeware demo here.

I hope my tutorial will be useful to others and maybe I will make some more to show my sister some of this material, it is definitely going to be helpful to her because she is a great photo lover and picture taker. Gimp will definitely be a tool that could help her edit her photos.