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9 CommentsI know skitch has been around for a little while, but I finally got my invite this week and am enthralled with skitch! If you've used skitch, then you know that it's just a ridiculously simple concept wrapped up in a sweet package, but hey, isn't that what most apps are? The truth is, I can do everythign skitch does without skitch, but this just makes it so much easier.
Example:
I see a design I like in a pdf or on a website, and want to show it to someone...
Before skitch: I could use paparazzi or even OS X's built in screenshot app to grab a jpeg of the design, then send of an email or IM with my a description of what I like and the jpeg in tow.
With skitch: I pop open skitch, drag over what I want to send, type, draw, and/or highlight to my heart's content (on "layers" of sorts so it's simple to take out what you don't need), name the image, select the image type (jpeg, png, pdf, svg, or skitch's proprietary format) then simply drag the image to whatever app I need to in order to send it.
Again, it's old news if you already have a "Screenshot workflow" down pat, but if you're constantly throwing around ideas and the like, this is a great tool to have in your arsenal.
I'm using mainly for showing ideas to clients for websites and photo shoots, has anyone else been using skitch? Any other thoughts on skitch (or other apps that seem to "simplify" and repackage menial tasks?
Rich
Written Jul. 8, 2007 / Report /
My only wish for the otherwise-perfect Skitch is that you could use the "Drag Me" function and just "drag" it to a form --say, a Note reply-- and it would automagically insert either a myskitch URL or, even better, the necessary
imgHTML.Either that or that you could get access to the sharing URLs from within the app.
momentography
Written Jul. 8, 2007 / Report /
Yeah, it would definitely be nice if it was all contained wihtin the app. The only alternative I found was uploading it to your own site or flickr, where you would already know the url...
Cas
Written Jul. 8, 2007 / Report /
Skitch does get you most of the way there with regard the URL - go to the history tab, select the 'posted to web' bit, choose your picture and it gives you the url of the flickr page. Yes, it would be even nicer if it gave you the url of the different sizes, but that's a tiny niggle really.
Like Rich, I'm finding Skitch near perfect (and still have some invites left if there are people out there still in need - just shoot me a PM ). I think my favourite bit has to be the satisfying 'slurp/ping' noise it makes when something is uploaded to Flickr.
Cappuccino
Written Jul. 8, 2007 / Report /
Any chance anyone has an invite left? Would love to give it a try. stvlange@gmail.com
Justin
Written Jul. 8, 2007 / Report /
^^ sent
jensized
Written Jul. 8, 2007 / Report /
So basically it doesn't do anything special, it just looks cool? I am looking at the website and it doesn't seem to boast anything that can't already be done... or am I missing something?
momentography
Written Jul. 9, 2007 / Report /
jensized: No, like I said, you could do everything skitch does "by hand." However, as Rich mentioned, it does automatically format different URL strings for you to use in different situations, in addition to, as far as I can tell, hosting the images you use on myskitch.com, which just cuts out the extra step of you hosting the image or uploading to flickr, which you can also do from skitch.
jensized
Written Jul. 9, 2007 / Report /
Ok, so Skitch takes things that take two seconds and does them in one. Right-o! :)
Cappuccino
Written Jul. 9, 2007 / Report /
Thanks Justin!