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Editing Pictures

Capture is MadCap's screen capture and editing tool, which is tightly integrated with Flare. If you have MadCap Capture installed on your computer, you can use it to do any of the following from within Flare:

Insert screen capture images into topics You can capture an image on your screen and insert it into a topic at the same time. See Inserting Screen Capture Images into Topics.
Add screen capture files to projects You can capture an image on your screen and add the image file to the project (without inserting the picture into a topic). See Adding Screen Capture Files to Projects.
Edit pictures You can open any image in your project. The image opens in Capture, where you can make changes to it.
Simply launch MadCap Capture You can simply open the MadCap Capture application from Flare. See Launching MadCap Capture.

Some advantages of using Capture include the following:

Layers You can add special effects or objects such as callouts, shapes, or lines. Because layers are used (rather than merging the objects into the image), you can easily return to the image later after you have saved it and modify just a single object (rather than re-creating the entire image).

Changes reflected automatically As soon as you save the image in Capture, the changes are automatically reflected anywhere the image was inserted in your project.
Single-sourcing images This feature reflects Capture's tight integration with MadCap Flare. For a single image, you can provide one group of settings for online output, and another group of settings for printed output. For example, you might want to use a resolution of 72 DPI for online output, and a resolution of 300 DPI for printed output. Rather than creating two separate images, you can single-source the image outputs. For more information, see Creating Single-Source Images.

How to edit a picture in your project

Do one of the following:
- Open a topic where the image is inserted. Right-click on the image.
  OR
- In the Content Explorer, locate and right-click the image file that you want to edit (e.g., Resources\Images\NameOfFile.png).
Select Edit With MadCap Capture. The image opens in MadCap Capture.
Edit the picture in Capture. For details, see Capture's online Help.
Save your work in Capture.

Note: You can also make any picture in your online Help interactive by linking it to another topic, bookmark within a topic, or an external file such as a website.

Note: You can also change the appearance of an inserted image by adding a background, borders, margins, or padding. In addition, you can resize an image.