HOW TO USE JING

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 What is Jing?
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 An application that instantly captures and shares

images and videos

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3 Benefits of Jing

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 Capture images and videos from your computer

monitor

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 Share your images instantly via web, email,

Facebook or blog

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 Enhance your fast-paced online conversations

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 And a lot more
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This guide gives an introduction to using

Jing. A FREE version was used.

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9 Step 1: Download Software

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 Go to www.techsmith.com

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 Choose FREE version or Jing Pro

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 FREE version for Windows is used in this tutorial

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 Click “Download” button

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 Select the version applicable to your computer

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 After download, this page will appear:

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 Just follow the installation instructions

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 You may wish to sign-up for Jing newsletter

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 Or watch FREE video tutorials to help you get

started

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 Step 2: Create Your Screencast.com
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Account

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 As first-time user, create your account with

Screencast.com

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 Screencast.com is a hosting service from TechSmith

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 You have 2 GB of storage and 2 GB bandwidth for

FREE

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 Click “Create new account”. Fill-in the information

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 Enter your information and click “Create”

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 This Jing image like a sun will appear on screen

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 Three options will appear if you move mouse over

the sun

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 The “Capture” option is the most useful one

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 “History” option is where copies of your capture is

stored

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 “More” option contains many settings you can

change

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 You can always move or hide the sun if you

want

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31 Step 3: Taking Your Capture

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 To make your capture, mouse over the sun

and click “Capture”

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 This cross-hairs will immediately appear

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 Click and drag the cross-hairs to capture

portion of your screen

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 Screen will darken while moving the cross-

hairs around the screen

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 Decide if you want to capture image

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 Or capture a video

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 Or record a webcam (for Pro version only)

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 Or redo your capture

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 You can also cancel your capture by

clicking “Cancel” button

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 If you capture image, you can add arrows,

texts and highlights

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 Image tools you can use to annotate your

capture

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 Use the “Arrow” tool to focus viewer’s

attention on something

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 “Text” tool lets you make comments, add

notes, etc

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 “Frame” tool lets you draw box around

something noteworthy

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 Use the “Highlight” tool to draw box

around something noteworthy

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Step 4: Saving, Sharing, Copying, &
Cancelling Your Capture

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 Decide what you want to do with the

image (or video)

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 You can save, share, copy and cancel the

image (or video)

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 To save your image (video), click on “Save”

button

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 This will appear

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 Create file name and decide where to save

the file

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 And click “Save”

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 A confirmation message below will appear on

the screen

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 You can also share your image (video) via

Screencast.com

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 To share your capture, simply click “Share via

Screencast.com “ button

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 This will appear showing your file is being

uploaded

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 Sharing your capture via Screencast.com gives a

link

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 The link will look like this:

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 A confirmation message is shown on screen

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 You have also option to copy your image (video)

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 To copy your image (video), click on “Copy”

button

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 A confirmation message below will appear on

your screen

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 You can also decide to cancel your image

(video)

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 Click the “Cancel” button. Your capture will not

be saved.

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Step 5: Retrieving, Viewing Your
Capture

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 All your capture are stored in Jing History

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 Mouse over the sun and click “History”

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 Mouse over the sun and click “History”

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 Your history folder will open showing all stored files

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 Both images and videos are stored in history folder

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 Click on the image (or video) and these details will

appear

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 If you right-click on the image (or video), this will

appear

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 To view the image (or video), click the “View” icon

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 To share the image (or video), click the “Share” icon

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 To delete the image (or video), click the “Delete”

icon

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Step 6: Managing Your Jing Settings
& Preferences

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 Unlike other programs, Jing is fairly easy to use

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 To adjust your settings, mouse over the “sun” and

click “More”

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 “More” option contains many settings you can

change

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 This will appear

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 You can change your account by clicking “Manage

account”

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 Your default account is the email address used

during registration

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 Choose Jing to start automatically when your

computer opens or hide it

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 You can also customize Jing sharing options

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 You can let Jing send captures to Facebook, Twitter,

YouTube, etc

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