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What makes Jing especially unique and powerful is the how you can literally click a button and instantly send an image or video to a location. To better understand this critical concept, we've broken this topic down into two parts--an overview of the most commonly-used buttons, then some information for more specialized buttons.

The Screencast.com output button is already set up when you install Jing, and it's probably the most convenient way to share a capture with other people.

Most of the time when you use Jing to capture an image or video you probably save it or use the Screencast.com button to retrieve a handy link to your content, which you share with others. Jing can also be configured to return html embed code so you can insert your image or video directly into a blog, website, wiki and more.

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Screencast.com is TechSmith's media hosting solution and it works great with Jing.

The Jing Save Button functions like the way you're probably used to saving. Click Save, choose a location, and confirm. However, if you find yourself constantly saving to the same location, you can make additional Save Buttons that will instantly save your content to a specified location.

Want to copy an image from your screen into an email or document? Jing can help you with that.

Jing is great for capturing images, adding a bit of text or some arrows, and then quickly sharing the image with others. But sometimes you may want something more--like the ability to blur out a password or apply a border or merge images together.

Jing is great for recording short videos and quickly sharing them with others. But sometimes you may want more features--like the ability to zoom into an area, cut out a part where you messed up or maybe even add some kind of text or callout to the video to really draw the viewer's attention.

Do you have your own FTP server or website? You can create an FTP button and Jing will upload your images and videos for you. In fact you can have multiple FTP buttons to send content to different folders.

Flickr is a popular image-hosting site. You can use Jing to send images directly to your Flickr account.