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I am recent convert, so please bear with me.

I use FastStone Capture under Windows to do screen capturing, cropping, editing, annotation with great ease.

Now with Mac OS X, what is your recommendation for doing this task? Thank you.

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You can do the basic work with stuff built into OS X.

There are standard short cuts for grabbing a region, window, screen, etc -- see Taking Screenshots in Mac OS X.

The Preview app has basic annotation capabilities. See this blog post for a screencast demonstration.

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The built-in tools are great for screen capture, and then you can use the editor of your choice (or just Preview) – jweede Aug 27 '09 at 12:31
+1 the built in tools are a great no-frills solution. – Nippysaurus Sep 8 '09 at 2:15
Use built-in tools before looking outside. Somtetimes, you can discover some amazing things... – Laurent Etiemble Dec 15 '09 at 13:42
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I use Skitch since 2007. At one point, some functionality required a one-time fee or subscription†, but in August 2011 Skitch was acquired by Evernote, and now is free again.

Though I still use it a lot, seeing its built-in arrows and font outlines all over the web actually annoys me a bit after all those years. But the font outline can be changed and its support for transparency and pressure-aware pen tablets is very good: freehand circles and arrows are easy! Odd: the text is always on top; I could not find any way to change the order.

         

Note that Apple's Preview has nice support for annotations as well, but Skitch always allows one to change or remove the annotations at a later time, which Preview does not.

† For years it was unclear what features would be included in the paid version after the beta. In December 2010, some features were removed from the free version, and then for some time only a free version and a $20 yearly subscription were available. Bad move. In 2011 this was been replaced with three versions: Skitch Lite (free), Skitch ($10) and Skitch Plus ($20/year). All history now.

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Jing is also doing well (free for non-pro version).

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For me, LittleSnapper is the tool of choice.

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Another option is Fly Sketch

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Gimp

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Imagewell is very good at taking images and very quickly editing, cropping, annotating them and saving them out to various sources (FTP, flicker, imageshack support etc).

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I also use imageoptim to crush my PNGs to save on bandwidth.

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shift+cmd+4

Works for me 90% of the time.

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Snapz Pro X records stills, movies, and audio.

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/

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