In addition to distributing free Camtasia Studio licenses, TechSmith is now giving away retail editions of SnagIt screen capture software for free – no strings attached.

Other than regular screenshots, SnagIt can capture scrolling long web pages, extract text from windows, annotate images and more.

Here’s how to download SnagIt for free:

Step 1: Download the demo version of SnagIt 7.2.5 from TechSmith FTP servers below:

ftp://ftp.techsmith.com/pub/products/snagit/725/SnagIt.exe [English]
ftp://ftp.techsmith.com/pub/products/snagit/725/snagitde.exe [German]
ftp://ftp.techsmith.com/pub/products/snagit/725/snagitfr.exe [French]

Step 2: Visit the TechSmith website here and request for a SnagIt 7 Software key – it should arrive in your Inbox pretty soon. Just key in the registration details and your trial copy of SnagIt will convert into a full retail version.

This complimentary copy of SnagIt is version 7.2.5 – you can upgrade that to the current version SnagIt 8.2 at half the standard price.

Good thinking – give away old versions of your software for free so that people play around and realize the value – there’s a good chance that lot of them will turn into paying customers.

[via Labnol.org]