LittleSnapper Case Study

What do you use LittleSnapper for?

Primarily I use it for capturing images of webpage for my work with TUAW, Download Squad and StyleList. It's so much easier to have a full image of a web page, the ability to edit or capture a specific element of that page and also easily open the image in Photoshop. Before, I used to have to take screenshots from the web browser, often trying to do everything I could to maximize the captured screen area or hack around with Web Inspector to try to find one embedded image that I liked and wanted to use.

I also find myself using LittleSnapper as a way to gather inspiration and design trends for my design work. It's also an easy way to share working iterations of websites I develop.

What is your favourite feature?

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LittleSnapper has filled a void in the Mac toolbox […] It has a permanent place in my dock.

Being able to capture DOM elements from a page within the LittleSnapper browser. This has been enormously helpful, especially when trying to get a good logo image to use for a blog post about a company (not every company has a media images available).

Which features have been the most useful?

Organizing snaps into folders or categories, loading web archives and selective elements and annotating snaps with what information I want to specifically remember.

How has your workflow improved?

Instead of having to use two or three tools, I can use one and get better snaps plus have easy access to both Coda and Photoshop. This lets me get a lot more done. The ability to capture from both Firefox and Safari is also tremendously helpful, as I have to use Firefox for specific tasks and this lets me have multiple tabs open, capture the snap and then edit and insert the image, without opening up Safari.

Anything else you'd like to add?

LittleSnapper has filled a void in the Mac toolbox: quality web screenshots. It has a permanent place in my dock.