http://flyingmeat.com/flysketch/

I’m sorry I didn’t see this comment, my service for tracking comment replies has been broken it seems.

I have to agree that Skitch is a huge time saver though I don’t know if it saves me quite that much time. In the past I’ve used Jing, an image editor (I’d have to choose which one) and PhotoBucket. It was slow, but doable and I could go from grab to online image in a few minutes easily.

Still, it certainly wasn’t an elegant solution and I will gladly pay for the privilege of using Skitch. If it is priced similar to their other software, I won’t have any problem. My issue is if Skitch.com is a monthly fee. At that point, I’d have to weigh my options. They do support Flickr currently and have hinted at supporting PhotoBucket in the future. If Skitch.com is too expensive, I might have to use one or the other.

Still, I just fear getting hooked on the software and then finding out that, to keep using it, I need to pay a hefty some. I’ll gladly pay a decent amount for it, but lets face it, I won’t be in much of a position to negotiate if they do decide to go for the arm and the leg.

However, they do seem like good guys, so I’m not too worried. :)

I find Skitch is now an invaluable tool for blogging, especially where one is talking about software or sites, and I’ve noticed a better readership ratio from RSS feeds in blog posts where there is an illustration to help make a point.

I think the timing of a Windows version of Skitch would be sensible as a commercial product when the Mac version is out of Beta.

As for being wary of the price when it comes out of beta – I worked out that Skitch saves me around £20 worth of my time every time I use it to place an image online. How? Well, instead of capturing an image in one programme, resizing, processing and captioning in another, and uploading in yet another, and then copying that URL into my blog software, I have a five-click process that can take less than five seconds from start to finish.

[ And I'm a very slow, and expensive commodity, of course ;-) ]

With those measurable benefits, I think I’d be happy to pay a high price, however, I don’t think it’s likely to be priced at a premium – pricing for other fully developed plasq products such as Comic Life is very reasonable.

Cheers!

MaxieM