Screen-capture software enhances instructional design work by allowing users to capture screenshots of any imagery conveyed through a computer screen.
This might involve an informal “screen grab” from a video. It may capture a slide during a live webcast, web conference, or webinar, to enhance live notetaking. Screen-capture software is useful to capture a desktop shot or a shot of software messages for remote troubleshooting. This software also enables the sharing of designs and ideas. Three-dimensional spaces may be “photographed” to freeze time and visuals, to share an experience.
Imagery that is captured may be output in a variety of digital graphical-image types, and these then may be pulled into a digital photo software for editing and re-output for different uses (such as print or Web use, integration into other websites or projects, and educational applications).
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