I like the thought of trying to crank out screen capture tutorials very rapidly using Picasa or Windows Picture Manager.

In Windows Picture Manager, I have to be careful not to put my mouse over the screen or I get the “mouseover” box with info about that picture. So as long as I’m willing to add the callouts later, I guess that’s okay.

Ditto (or similar) for Picasa. Fooling around with the mouse is bound to cause problems.

okay, I’ve found a way around this problem. When the “write on the screen” pencil is active, none of the functionality on the parent application works. So, the key is to keep the cursor away from the record area except when writing on it. and actually, I prefer to do my scribbling while the screen is paused.