HelpSmith Logo
Making Help Authoring a Pleasure to Do
Free DownloadStart your free trial now
HelpSmith Topics
Making Help Authoring a Pleasure To Do

How to add the mouse cursor to an existing screenshot?

When capturing a screenshot I did not turn on the Capture Screenshot option in the Image Tool.

Capture Screenshot option not checked

Is it possible to add the mouse cursor to an existing screenshot somehow?

26

Comments

Is it possible to add the mouse cursor to an existing screenshot somehow?

You can add the mouse cursor to any image in your help project.

Step 1. Open the image for editing in the Image Tool

  1. In the topic editor, hover the mouse over the image.
  2. Click the Edit Image button that appears in the top-left corner.

Opening an image in the HelpSmith's Image Tool

17

Step 2. Add the mouse cursor from a file

  1. In the Image Tool window, in the left toolbar, click Add Cursor from File.
  2. In the Open dialog, find and select a cursor file.
  3. Click Open.
  4. Position the cursor object on the image as you need.
  5. Click OK.

Inserting a cursor file

15

How to find cursors in Windows

Please note that you can load a mouse cursor from a file that you can find in your Windows directory.

For example:

c:\Windows\Cursors\aero_arrow.cur

11

Add a Comment

Please Login or Register or leave comments.

Hello World
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
OK
Login
Nickname or Email:
Password:
If you do not have an account, you can register.