Chapter 8. Screen Capture and Markup with Talon and Falcon

Talon and Falcon are Aviary's screen capture and markup application, respectively. Screen captures are images taken directly from your computer screen; anything you see on your screen can be saved as a resource. Although Markups are simple graphic overlays used to highlight something, decorate an image, or make notes, they are designed to be quick and useful for simple tasks. This can all be done from your browser, so there is no longer a need to launch several different applications to post a quick image to your blog or grab a starting image for a creation.

Talon, Aviary's screen capture tool

Talon comes either as an add-on extension for the Firefox® browser, Google Chrome browser, or as ...

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