As a part of the MacWorld celebrations, Skitch has announced that they are opening up and releasing a beta for the general public. As covered before, Skitch is a rockin' screen capture application for the Mac. You can easily capture all or just a portion of your screen, do some quick editing, and easily share it with your peeps via Flickr, FTP, or Skitch's on web service.

We promise, once you start using this app you'll wonder how you adequately did screen captures before. If you're a blogger, techie, or artist you'll love this functional (and beautiful) app. In addition to doing normal screen captures, you can use your built-in iSight to snap a photo of your self, sketch out a quick drawing, and access your iPhoto library for easy photo sharing. Skitch also makes annotating images real easy with attractive text and image editing capabilities.

To get started with Skitch, head on over to their homepage and download the install file.

[via TUAW]