Visualizing Tasks using Solid Capture and Google Image Search

Google offers many different search tools, and one of our favorites is Google Image Search (http://images.google.com). This search tool is designed to find images across the Internet.

This can be useful for visualizing tasks at work. For example, if you are trying to decide what style of desk you want for your new office, you can use Google Image Search to find examples of them. Once you've found some relevant images, you can use Solid Capture Screen Capture software to easily reuse them.

Using Google Image Search more Effectively.

In a nutshell, Google Image Search displays a list of images from the Internet based on what you put into the search engine. Search for "desk" and you'll find all of the images related to the word desk.

This can be useful, but what about when you want to search for images on a particular site? (in our example, ikea.com comes to mind) In your search, add "site:site_you_are_searching.com" and you'll only get images from that one site.

Continuing with our example, the search will look like this:



(click here to see the search in action)

The page that appears will have many small thumbnail versions of the images that Google found. You can click the images to see them in context of the website they're in (and in full size). In many cases you just need the smaller version to get your point across.

Using Solid Capture to Reuse the Images.

Once you're looking at an image that you want to use, open Solid Capture and click the Rectangle Capture button:



Click and drag over the image (or images, or part of an image) that you wish to capture, and the capture will be saved inside Solid Capture.

You can drag these files from Solid Capture into a folder, or copy and paste them into an e-mail (or a Word DOC, or whatever application you're working with that can use images). To complete the example, an e-mail with some of the images we captured might look like this:



Finally, make sure to follow all copyright laws when using Solid Capture (or any other computer program for that matter).