Sometimes a screenshot requires annotations to explain what you're trying to communicate with the help of that image. Applications like Clarify were created exactly for this purpose. This Mac utility enables you to take snapshots and add text or geometrical shapes to your screen captures with a minimum of effort.
After you launch the program on your Mac, a new icon is added to your Menu Bar as well as your Dock. You can take snapshots by using a certain key combination (it can be found and changed in the Preferences panel). The app lets you choose the area from your screen that you wish to capture and immediately reveals the snapshot in its main window.
You can add a description to the screenshot, resize the image if necessary, and even attach geometrical shapes to the snapshot. After you finish altering the picture, you can export it as a PDF, DOCX, HTML, PNG or JPEG file and share it with other people.
Furthermore, the program lets you share snapshots via email or Dropbox accounts.
Personally, I really enjoyed using this utility. It was very simple to use, offered me many useful features, and preserved the quality of the screenshots after I exported them. So, it's worth giving it a try if you're looking for an efficient screen capture utility for your Mac.
v1.1 [Apr 20, 2012]
Fixes:
• Image capture on Retina displays now works. (Interface does not support Retina yet, however.)
• Fixed a crash that was occurring on some Mountain Lion installs.
• Dragging a step to top of navigator list would generate an error.
• Setting the list style to none using the Format menu would cause an error.
• Dragging a step from one document into an empty document would not work. A document had to have at least one step to accept a drop from another document.
• Quitting Clarify during a screen capture session by means of a keyboard shortcut now works properly.
• Pressing the return key in the spell check suggestion field was not tabbing to the next control.
• When opening a document window an error could occur when positioning and sizing the document window.
• Certain characters were not being escaped in the header and footer strings. This would cause PDF generation to fail.
• Setting the text color for a PDF template would not update the template properly.
• Setting the footer text color for a PDF template would not affect PDF output.
• Fixed some issues with text running into the footer in PDF output.
• PDF footer text hint said to use html formatting when in fact it doesn't accept html formatting.
• Clicking the star icon in the web accounts/PDF template lists was not turning off the default account setting.
