Don’t believe the myth that technical writers only write documentation. Technical writing skills are not enough anymore because in general people get the main idea better by visual content. That’s why along with text writing tech writers create images, graphics, and videos. There are many tools for creating infographics, screenshots and videos. To simplify your searching for a good tool for working on visual content, I’ve decided to create a list of helpful sources that I use.

Infographics are a powerful tool for capturing attention of your target audiences. In fact, businesses that publish infographics grow their traffic an average of 12% more than those that don’t. The hard part, of course, is finding time and resources to create these infographics. That’s why HubSpot has created fifteen fully customizable infographic templates that will give you inspiration and foundation you need to build your own infographics right in PowerPoint or Illustrator. Use these infographic templates to present data for your next meeting, promote an offer on social media, or in your next blog post. Visual information is becoming more and more popular — and now you have the resources to easily create this visual content.

Everyone knows that Powerpoint is a great tool for making presentations. However, not all of them know that it’s possible to create infographics by using this tool! Just download templates that I’ve mentioned above and you’ll not need a guide.

An image browser, converter and editor that supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, TGA and camera raw files. It has a nice array of features such as image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, color adjustments, musical slideshow and much more.

Microsoft suggests two plans — standard and professional. But the idea is the same — Microsoft Visio helps technical writers easily create diagrams, charts, maps, workflows, and home or office plans using a rich set of shapes and templates. And a familiar Office experience allows you to perform common flow charts with ease. Also you can comfortably share your diagrams with co-workers.

FastStone Capture is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool and screen video recorder. It allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular / freehand / fixed regions as well as scrolling windows / web pages. It also allows you to record all screen activities including onscreen changes, speech from microphone, mouse movements and clicks into highly compressed video files. You can choose to send captures to editor, file, clipboard, printer, email, Word / PowerPoint document or upload them to your website. Editing tools include annotating (texts, arrowed lines, highlights), resizing, cropping, sharpening, watermarking, applying edge effects and many more. Other features include image scanning, global hotkeys, automatic filename generation, support for external editors, a color picker, a screen magnifier, a screen crosshair and a screen ruler.

LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF (for viewing in web browsers, etc) or .LCF (see below). LICEcap is an intuitive but flexible application (for Windows and now OSX), that is designed to be lightweight and function with high performance. In addition to .GIF, LICEcap supports its own native lossless .LCF file format, which allows for higher compression ratios than .GIF, higher quality (more than 256 colors per frame), and more accurate timestamping.

VEGAS Pro has always been an innovator. Version 15 carries on this legacy and delivers a completely customizable interface that provides ultimate flexibility. Filled with new features, both inside and out, VEGAS Pro powers your creativity. Whether you work in HD or 4K, VEGAS Pro stands ready to be your creative partner. Video/Audio production and DVD/Blu-ray disc authoring all in one powerful package.