New Image

Creates a new image. This opens up a dialog to create new image. Both width and height are filled based on either the current application main window size or using values from the preferences. Background color can be changed as required. By default, it is white. Note that transparent background color is displayed as white in the screen. However, when it is exported transparency is maintained. 

New Capture

Provides multiple options for capturing a screenshot.

Region:  Captures a selected region of the screen. Press Escape or right click to cancel the operation. Press 'r' to recapture the region again while dragging the cursor.

Region to Clipboard:  Captures a selected region of the screen. Instead of importing the image into application, it copies the image to clipboard directly. This is very helpful for adhoc screen captures that are not required after use.

Last Region: Recently captured region will be used to recapturing the screen. This is useful when a particular region is changing and it needs to be captured multiple times./

Region Text: Extract & capture text from any image or screenshot. This is available only on Windows 10 and above. If the text to be extracted is small, try to zoom into the image for better text extraction accuracy. Once text is captured, it can be edited and copied into clipboard. 

Full Screen: Captures full display screen. If there are multiple monitors, they are listed in Displays sub-menu. Primary screen is the default screen set for the system. This can be overridden in the user preferences. For example, if there are two monitors. Any of them can be set as primary screen in user preferences. When full screen capture is executed, it takes full screen image of the primary display set in the preferences.

Sub-options in the menu are outlined as below:

1. Displays: It provides information of all displays.
2. Primary with Taskbar: Captures the complete screen of primary display along with task bar.
3. Primary without Taskbar: Captures the complete screen of primary display without task bar.
4. All Displays with Taskbar: Captures full screen of connected displays with task bar.
5. All Displays without Taskbar: Captures full screen of connected displays without task bar

Active Window: Captures full screen of selected active window that is listed. Corresponding application is opened and brought to front and screenshot of the window is taken.                                                                                         

Timed: Captures a selected region of window after a time delay. Default timer value is 10 seconds and this can be adjusted in User preferences.

Continuous Region: Continuously captures a selected region at a specified interval selected by user and the first capture is displayed in the editor. Using the navigation buttons in the bottom middle section, rest of the captures can be viewed or opened in separate tabs. 

Window: Captures different portions of the most recent window as per user selection. Only recognizable windows in an application can be selected.

Web: Captures the web page of the Web URL provided by the user. Browser size and delay can be modified as per user requirement. In addition, url can be opened in a browser for proper capturing of dynamically rendered components. This is highly recommended for web page capture to get high quality images.

Scrolling Window: Captures a scrolling web page/document/window completely from the first click to the end of page by automatically scrolling the content. There is a two second delay set in the preferences to pause after each page down to enable application render all components before taking a snapshot.

Scrolling Region: Captures a scrolling web page/document/window completely from the first click to the end of page by automatically scrolling the content. A region of interest for scrolling need to be selected before capturing. This helps to remove unnecessary common content from the scrolling page. Sometimes, pages contains left side area dedicated for navigation. For scrolling captures, these  regions are not required. There is a two second delay set in the preferences to pause after each page down to enable application render all components before taking a snapshot. This can be adjusted as required.

To cancel the scrolling in between clicks, use Windows or Alt button or press Escape button.

 Camera: Web camera of the system is used to capture the image. User can adjust camera settings and capture images.

New from Clipboard

Imports the image in clipboard and displays it in a tab. 

Open File (Ctrl+O)

Opens a selected image from file directory. Corresponding image is imported into application. Any changes to the imported image will not impact the original image. 

Close (Ctrl+W)

Closes the current opened tab.

Save (Ctrl+S)

 Saves image in a file from the active tab. 

Save As (Ctrl+Alt+S)

File will be saved with user specified name and format in a selected directory.

Delete(Ctrl+Alt+D)

Delete’s selected image.

Print(Cntl+P)

Print’s the images with a variety of settings.

Close (Alt+F4)

Closes application window, but application runs in the background and appears in the tray. User can perform all capture options. Refer to Try Options in this document.

Quit (Alt+F5)

Shutdowns the application.

Undo (Ctrl+Z)

Undo the most recent action.

Redo (Ctrl+Y)

Redo the most recent action that is undone. 

Cut (Ctrl+X)

Cuts any selected annotation/text. 

Copy (Ctrl+C)

Copies selected annotation/text. 

Paste (Ctrl+V)

Pastes the clipboard data on image or canvas if the clipboard content is compatible. In case of text in the clipboard, a text annotation is created and text is copied into the annotation. If the image is in the clipboard, an image annotation is created with the clipboard image.

Clear Clipboard

Clears the contents of clipboard.

Duplicate Annotations(Ctrl+D)

Selected annotation(s) will be duplicated.

Delete Annotation (Del) 

Deletes selected annotations on image or canvas, if no annotation is selected, it deletes image in active tab.

Select All (Ctrl+A)

Selects all the annotations on image and canvas.

Flatten

Flattens annotations in 3 ways

1.       Selected annotations: Flattens only selected annotations.

2.       All annotations on the image: Flattens annotations on image after which they become a part of the image.

3.       All annotations on the canvas: Flattens annotations on image or canvas and image canvas will be resized to fit all annotations

Grid View

Thumbnail view representations for all opened images in Pixit. User can Select/ Deselect images to Share multiple files at a time. To close more tabs at one click, select required images and click Close Tabs. Please refer to Thumbnail View  for more details.