

If Preview in Editor was not selected in the Capture Window, your file saves automatically or you will be asked to enter a file name.Complete any desired edits, then click Finish. If Preview in Editor was selected in the Capture Window, your capture appears in Snagit Editor.Select the desired Image file type and file name and location preferences.In the Share dropdown, select the File option and then click the gear icon.In the Capture Window, select the Image tab.

Set up your image capture to save directly to a specific file type. To maintain transparency in your image, save to a file format that supports transparency: CUR, GIF, ICO, PNG, TIF, or SNAGX.Īutomatically Save Images to a Specific Format (Windows) During Capture.Complete all your edits to the SNAGX file before saving to another format.It is not possible to edit annotations made to the non-SNAGX file before it was flattened. On Mac, when you quit Snagit, the non-SNAGX file is flattened.On Windows, if you exit and then reopen Snagit Editor, you can continue editing both files and any annotations.It is possible to continue editing both files. The new file and the SNAGX file both appear in the tray. In the Save As dialog, enter a filename and select the preferred file type and location.In Snagit Editor, click to select the image in the Recent Captures Tray or Library.To save to another file format, such as JPG or PNG, for use in a different application:

Snagit always saves image captures to the default SNAGX format. For details about feature compatibility between versions, see Snagit File Format Compatibility. To share captures to previous versions of Snagit, save your image as SNAG (Windows) or SNAGPROJ (Mac). Note: The SNAGX file format can only be opened in Snagit version 2022 or later.
