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Home bar is the left most quick access bar that has options to capture, manage the captured images and user preferences.
| Button Icon | Name | Description |
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 | Region Capture | Captures a selected region of the screen. Press Escape or right click to cancel the operation. Press 'r' to retake the region again. |
| Full Screen Capture | Captures full screen of current working window with taskbar. |
| Timed Capture | Captures a selected region of the screen after 10 seconds. This helps to interact with the window and select the required menu/sub-menu when timer is running. |
| Active Window Capture | Opens a grid view of all active windows. Full screen of a selected window is captured. |
| Scrolling Window Capture | Captures the browser page/application window content scrolling the page/panel content down and taking successive screenshots and stitching them together at the end. Overlapping and common areas can be clipped off by setting a configuration parameter. |
| Expand additional Capture options | Additional capture options can be opened in a pop-up menu.
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| Management Fly-outs | ||
| Home | A dashboard view with image counts for captured, imported, shared and the amount of space taken by the stored files is presented. An example home view is presented below:
In addition to statistics, Get Started section in the Home fly-out with help links is available in the bottom section. These quick help links take user to online documentation and training videos. |
| Browse | Helps to view the images by the recent captures, recently modified images, category/sub-category, and created date. |
| Search | Opens a fly-out with image search panel to search images based on various image properties including Category, Sub-category, Tags, and Display name. |
| Export | Helps to export file(s) in different formats: Bmp, Gif, Jpeg, Png, and Tiff. Files can be saved in predefined folders: desktop, pictures, documents, and videos. In addition, files can be saved in Zip format with Category/Sub-category folder structure. Last 20 recent folders are stored in the system for saving images without requiring navigation every time. |
| Share | Shares the selected images to multiple cloud uploads, office exports, and into applications such as Jira, Facebook, etc. |
| Contacts | Helps to manage Contacts in this flyout. These contacts are used for auto-fill support in email sender component. |
| Import | Import files from local file system. Files to be imported can be selected and previewed before importing. Once files are imported, they are copied internally and are managed by the application. |
| User Preferences | ||
| User Preferences | User can change preferences/options for various application components in preferences window. There is no explicit saving requirements. When a parameter value is changed, it is effective right away except in some cases where explicit save is required. For example, Capture Mouse Pointer option helps to include cursor in the captured image. |
Menu Bar(2)
Menu bar has the operational menus providing another way of reaching out to features. All most all menu items have corresponding icon buttons in the main window. Usually, users don't need to open menus for accessing application features. More than 95% of features are accessible through icon buttons in the main window. In the following, each of the menus and sub-menus are detailed.
| Menu | Sub-menu | Description |
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| File | File menu has commands to Open, Capture, Save, Delete, Print, and Close images. | |
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:
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. | |
| Edit | Edit menu has commands to Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste etc... | |
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 | |
| Window | Window menu has commands to open Grid view, Home, Browse, etc. Options. | |
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. | |
| Home | Opens Home fly-out from left | |
| Browse | Opens Browse fly-out. | |
| Search | Opens Search fly-out. | |
| Export | Opens Export fly-out. | |
| Share | Opens Share fly-out. | |
| Contacts | Opens Contact fly-out. | |
| Import | Opens Import fly-out. | |
| User Preferences | Open user preferences window. | |
| Help | Help menu has commands for registering and updating product. | |
| Register GetPixit | Helps to registers the product using the provided license key. | |
| Check for Updates | Helps to see if there are any product updates which can be applied. It is recommended to keep the product updated. There are monthly updates with bug fixes and quarterly updates with enhancements/new features. | |
| About GetPixit | Provides installed version number with a brief description. | |
Status Bar (3)
Status bar is located at the bottom of the application window that has options to set image properties such as category, sub category, rate an image, bookmark, add tags, view image details, zoom etc. Most importantly, it has buttons to navigate images in the sequence they were captured and also drag and drop the active image into any external application.
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| Category | Helps to categorize images for easy search. User can add, edit, and remove categories and sub-categories in the Category manager.
Category helps user to group images according to their choice which helps with better organization and easy to search them. | ||||||||
| Rating | Enables providing a rating to the image. Rating range is 1-5. A rating stars pop-up shows up to select the rating. Depending on the rating, the color of star background changes. | ||||||||
| Flag | Flag helps to mark the image as important. If selected, it runs to red. | ||||||||
| Bookmark | Visual bookmark button is enabled if the image has a corresponding URL. This helps to find images that are bookmarked and corresponding websites can be opened using the 'Open in Browser' button on the top right. | ||||||||
| Tags | Tags help to describe an image/capture. Mange Tags: Click to open Tag Editor window where user can add, edit, delete tags and view file count. Tags can be added simply by typing the tag name followed by ;. This will insert a new tag in the tag list and associates corresponding images to the tag. | ||||||||
| Image Info | Image details such as size, dimension etc... are displayed. User can edit image name and add description to image. | ||||||||
| History | Gives the record of the all the user actions on the image with versions. User can revert back the changes of a particular version if required by selecting the row. | ||||||||
| Zoom | User can Zoom in/out of an image.
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| Navigation | Navigating and opening images based on the capture order. | |||||||||
 | First | Opens first image among all tabs. | ||||||||
 | Previous | Opens previous image of current tab. | ||||||||
 | Open in Tab/Place | Opens the images in separate tabs or in a single tab. To view each image in a separate tab click “Open in Tab”. If an image is already opened in tab, it is highlighted.To open all the images in single tab click “Open in place”. | ||||||||
 | Next | Opens next image of current tab. | ||||||||
 | Last | Opens the last image among all tabs. | ||||||||
 | Drag Me | Drags the current tab’s image to any application. | ||||||||
| Message | Message | Shows the current image dimensions and any active message corresponding the recent operation is displayed here. | ||||||||
Tool Bar (4)
Tool bar has icons to access tools for file operations and image annotation formatting and manipulation.
Draw Mode
Toggle the button to switch between Draw and Image mode on right hand side of the Pixit editor. Draw mode has editing tools like Highlighter, Blur rectangle, Sticky note and annotations to add on canvas such as Text, Arrows, Lines, Counters etc., that enables the user to edit captured images.
Figure 2: Draw Mode
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Cursor | Selects one or multiple objects, to move or resize the object. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Text | Adds any text on image and canvas.
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Arrow | Draws arrow in the image/canvas
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Freehand Lines | Allows drawing freehand lines on an image. | |||||||||||||||||||
Geometric Shapes | Allows drawing different geometric shapes on the image.
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Highlight | Highlights a region on image. | |||||||||||||||||||
Blur Rectangle | Blurs a portion of image. | |||||||||||||||||||
Sticky Note | Adds a sticky note on image and canvas. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Counter Rectangle | Adds continuous numbering on the image/canvas. Option to reset the numbering is also available. Counter Circle: Adds a non-editable circular counter. Counter Rectangle: Adds an editable rectangular counter that has options like cut, copy and paste on right click. | ||||||||||||||||||
Embed Image | Embeds an image to canvas from file directory. | |||||||||||||||||||
Image Border |
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Clip art/Images | Has web URL’s to drag and drop Clip art/Images. They can be dropped on toolbar to open as a new image. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Icon | Adds selected vector icon on image and canvas. | ||||||||||||||||||
Icon browser | Huge collection of vector icons. Icons can be copied or dragged and dropped to the image/canvas. |
Table 2: Draw Mode Options
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Right click on annotation; a property window will be opened. Style, Text, Effects, Size, Presets options are available under “Properties” window. (Refer: Table 3)
Property | Description |
Style | Options to change properties of Outline, Fill and Arrows are present. |
Text | Text, URL and Font style options are available. |
Effects | Colours and Effect options are available |
Size | Size, Location and Rotation properties can be modified. |
Presets | Shape properties like Preset and Opacity can be modified. |
Table 3: Properties
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Figure 3: Image Mode
Icon | Icon Name | Description |
Resize Image | Re-sizes the image with the provided dimension. | |
Resize Canvas | Re-sizes canvas position, width, height, colour etc. with values modified by User. | |
| Rotate | Rotates the image clockwise in 90° incrementally. |
| Flip Vertical | Flips the selected image and any annotations that are burnt on image or canvas vertically. |
| Flip Horizontal | Flips the selected image and any annotations that are burnt on image or canvas horizontally. |
| Image Auto Level | Corrects Image features such as brightness, contrast etc. to auto level. |
Image Auto Color Correction | Corrects colour proportion of image. | |
| Brightness & Contrast | Adjusts brightness and contrast of image. |
| Image Formats | Different image formats like greyscale-8bpp and editing image samples is possible. |
| Colour Effects | Series of color effects like Invert color, Black & White etc.. are available. |
| Filters | Options like eroding, blurring, sharpening etc. of image are available. |
Image Effects | Applies the selected image effect on a loaded image. (Example: Grayscale, Halftone…) |
Table 4: Image Mode Options |
4. Status Bar:
Status bar is located at the bottom of the Pixit window which has options to group an image to a category-sub category, rate an image, bookmark, add tags, provide image information, zoom etc., that helps in managing the images.
Figure 4: Status Bar
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Category | Helps to categorise images for easy search. User can add, edit, and remove categories in Category manager.
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Rating | Allows providing rating to image. | |||||||||
Flag | Adds a flag to image for quick identification. | |||||||||
Web Visual Bookmark | Differentiates web captures from the others.. | |||||||||
Tags | Tags help to describe an image/capture.
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Image Info | Image details such as size, dimension etc... are displayed. User can edit image name and add description to image. | |||||||||
Zoom | User can Zoom in/ out an image.
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First | Opens first image among all tabs. | |||||||||
Previous | Opens previous image of current tab. | |||||||||
Open in Tab/Place | Opens the images in separate tabs or in a single tab. To view each image in a separate tab click “Open in Tab”. If an image is already opened in tab, it is highlighted.To open all the images in single tab click “Open in place”. | |||||||||
Next | Opens next image of current tab. | |||||||||
Last | Opens the last image among all tabs. | |||||||||
Drag Me | Drags the current tab’s image to any application. | |||||||||
Slideshow | Full screen view of opened tabs. | |||||||||
History | Gives the record of the all the user actions on the image with versions. User can revert back the changes of a particular version if required. | |||||||||
Dimensions | Gives image dimension and size details. |
Table 5: Status bar Options
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Tool bar has icons to access tools for file operations and image formatting.
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New Image(Cntl+N) | Creates a new Image. | |||||||||||||||||
Open File(Cntl+O) | Opens a file from file directory | |||||||||||||||||
Reload File | Reloads image to its original loaded state after any change. | |||||||||||||||||
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. | |||||||||||||||||
Undo(Ctrl+Z) | Undo the most recent action. | |||||||||||||||||
Redo(Ctrl+Y) | Redo’s the most recent action that is undone. | |||||||||||||||||
Fill Color | Fills background colour to the selected annotation. | |||||||||||||||||
Outline Width | Provides outline width to the selected annotation. | |||||||||||||||||
Outline Color | Provides outline colour to the selected annotation. | |||||||||||||||||
Font Size | Applies font size to the selected annotation. | |||||||||||||||||
Font Color | Applies font color to the selected annotation. | |||||||||||||||||
Highlighter Color | Applies highlighter color to the selected annotation. | |||||||||||||||||
Preset Colors | Applies preset colors available to the selected annotation. | |||||||||||||||||
Arrange | Arranges multiple annotations or images as per selection.
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Align | Aligns multiple annotations or images in user selected format.
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Flatten Annotations (Alt+Ins) | Burns annotations on image or canvas.
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Remove All Annotations (Alt+Delete) | Erases all annotations on canvas. | |||||||||||||||||
Hide All Annotations | Hides annotations on image and canvas. | |||||||||||||||||
Crop Image | Crop a part of image. | |||||||||||||||||
Copy Image Area | Copies an image area selected by user. | |||||||||||||||||
Magnifier | Magnifies any section or part of image for a much detailed view. | |||||||||||||||||
Save (Cntl+S) | Saves the image. | |||||||||||||||||
Delete(Del) | Deletes image and selected annotations on image or canvas. | |||||||||||||||||
Print(Cntl+P) | Prints the image. | |||||||||||||||||
Thumbnail 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. (Refer: Thumbnail View for more details.) | |||||||||||||||||
Smart Pencil | In Draw mode, enable Smart Pencil and use Free hand lines to draw any shape on image or canvas.
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Open in Browser | If a web capture is made, URL of that capture is remembered and by clicking this icon it directs to that web page. | |||||||||||||||||
Slideshow | To display screenshots in slide mode for quick presentation. |
Table 6: Tool bar Options
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Menu bar has the operational menus of Pixit with various features.
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File | File tab has commands to Open, Capture, Save, Delete, Print, and Close images.
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Edit | Edit tab has commands to Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste etc...
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Window | Window tab has commands to open Grid view, Home, Browse, etc. Options.
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Help | Help tab has commands like preference, register Pixit etc.
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Table 7: Menu Bar options
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Any image captured or imported to Pixit has following options on right click (Refer: Figure 14).
Bring Forward | Brings embedded images, annotations on an image forward. | |
Send Backward | Sends embedded images, annotations on an image backward. | |
Open In | Open the image in MS Paint, MS Picture Manager, System viewers. | |
Set as Background | Sets the image that is opened in Pixit as desktop background. | |
Copy image to clipboard | Copy and paste the image in another location, works with shortcut (Ctrl+C). | |
Copy Canvas to Clipboard | Copies image along with annotations (e.g. Text, Icons) on the canvas to another location. | |
Extract Text from Image | Extracts text from image which can be copied in any location by clicking Copy Text.
Figure 16: Extract Text from Image | |
Flatten Annotations | Burns annotations on image or canvas. Selected Annotation: Burns only selected annotations on canvas. All annotations on the image: Burns all annotations available on image and the burnt annotations now become part of image. All annotations on the canvas: Burns all annotations available on canvas and re-sizes canvas to fit all annotations in it. |