camtasia or simliar program?

[voltron7]

Hi I am looking for a free, easy to use way to capture screen images.

Basically, I am looking for something a bit better than the "alt+print screen" method to help teach a friend some very basic Photoshop crap...(i.e. this is how to show the "tools" in the work window)

-it doesn't have to capture as a movie, can be individual images
-it doesn't have to have audio

Thank in advance...

[glorybound]

Jing, baby!

http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html

[voltron7]

Thanks Bobby, looks like the perfect thing!

[glorybound]

my pleasure!

Thanks Bobby, looks like the perfect thing!

[Bathyscaph]

The Jing thing looks cool. Another option is Skitch which is particularly good if you are storing any of this stuff in Evernote. I now keep all of my software notes in Evernote and it makes it very easy to search and find notes on render settings, hotkeys, etc.

http://evernote.com/skitch/

[Morne]

You can also use the free Expression Encoder from Microsoft. With SP2 they also removed the 10min recording limitation

[joconnell]

Camstudio is like an open source version of camtasia - the big thing though is the screen codec that camtasia gives you for tiny file sizes.

[voltron7]

Wow, some cool ideas floated up here! Thank everyone for responses, it was really helpful.
So far Jing seems pretty great. It does not have any noticeable performance hit, either...although I still want to try out the rest listed