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you annotate, draw attention to, or erase parts of your illustration. (The Eraser works

only on your pen, pencil, and highlighter strokes—not the snip itself.)

The app opens as a window (Figure 8-30, top). At the moment, the

only thing useful to you now is at its top-left corner: the New
button and its pop-up menu.

2. If you’ll need a few seconds to get things ready, use the New
pop-up menu to choose a time delay.

Your options are “Snip now,” “Snip in 3 seconds,” or “Snip in 10
seconds.” The idea here is that once the self-timer begins, you’ll

have a chance to set up the elements of the screen the way you
want them in the picture. Maybe you want a screenshot of an icon
in mid-drag, a menu open, a painting tool in mid brushstroke, or

whatever.

3. Hit New.

After the chosen delay (if any), the Snip & Sketch palette appears
at the top of the screen (Figure 8-30, middle). It has four buttons to
specify four kinds of capture (plus an button to close the panel):

Rectangular Snip lets you drag diagonally across the frozen
screen image, capturing a square or rectangular area.
Unfortunately, you can’t adjust the rectangle if your aim was off;

the instant you release the mouse button, the program captures the
image.

Free-form Snip means you can drag your cursor in any crazy,

jagged, freehand, nonrectangular shape. The app outlines it with a
colored border; the instant you release the mouse, the captured
image appears in the editing window, ready to save.