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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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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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Tool bar has icons to access tools for file operations and image annotation formatting and image manipulation. Draw Mode
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| New Image (Ctrl+N) | Creates a new Image. Image width and height are derived from the main application window size or preset values in user preferences. | ||||||||||||||||
| Open File (Ctrl+O) | Opens a file from file directory and import the file into application. | ||||||||||||||||
| Reload File | Reloads image to its original loaded state after any change. This is helpful to restore the original file to clear any undesirable changes overtime. | ||||||||||||||||
| 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 the most recent action that is undone. | ||||||||||||||||
| Fill Color | Fills background color to the selected annotation. | ||||||||||||||||
| Outline Width | Provides outline width to the selected annotation. | ||||||||||||||||
| Outline Color | Provides outline color 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. Preset colors change fill color, border color and text color. A set of preset colors are predefined for easier selection and proper look and feel. | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrange | Arranges annotations as per selection.
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| Align | Aligns multiple annotations in user selected format.
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| Flatten Annotations (Alt+Ins) | Burns annotations on image or canvas. Opens a dialog with the following options:
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 | Remove All Annotations (Alt+Delete) | Removes all annotations on canvas. | ||||||||||||||||
| Hide All Annotations | Hides annotations on image and canvas. This is useful if there large number of annotations and image manipulation is required. | ||||||||||||||||
| View Annotations | Enabling this button disables annotation editing. | ||||||||||||||||
| Crop Image | Crops a selected part of the image. | ||||||||||||||||
| Select Image Area | Enables selecting an area of the image and operate on the selection. Selection can be copied into clipboard, text can be extracted, and fill the area with a selected color. | ||||||||||||||||
| Magnifier | Magnifies any section or part of image for a much detailed view. | ||||||||||||||||
| Image area selection | Enables to select an image area for applying image operations from image toolbox. This is enabled only when image toolbox is active. | ||||||||||||||||
| Save (Ctrl+S) | Saves the image. | ||||||||||||||||
| Delete (Del) | Deletes the selected annotations on image or canvas. If there are no annotations selected, it deletes the image. | ||||||||||||||||
| Print (Ctrl+P) | Prints the image. Print manager is opened for formatting print output. | ||||||||||||||||
| Thumbnail View | Shows the thumbnail view all images in opened tabs. 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 to 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.The drawing will be converted to the nearest geometric shape and the shape information is available in description on the bottom right side. | ||||||||||||||||
| 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 | Displays screenshots in slide mode. |
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Toggle the button to switch between Draw (5) and Image mode (6) on right hand side of the editor. Draw mode has tools to annotate the image. These annotations include Text, Arrows, Lines, Counters and various shapes.
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| Cursor | Selects one or multiple objects, to move or resize the object. | |||
| Text | Adds any text annotation on the image and canvas area.
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| Freehand Lines | Allows drawing freehand lines on an image. If the smart pencil option is enabled, application tries to convert drawn shapes into geometric shapes. |
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| Highlight | Highlights a region on image. Highlight color can be selected from top toolbar or from the properties. |
| Blur Rectangle | Blurs a portion of image. This is annotation and can be moved and resized as required. |
 | Eraser | Erases a part of the image with white color. Width of the eraser can be selected from the outline width in the top tool bar. |
 | Sticky Note | Adds a sticky note annotation. This annotation is usually used to include a note on |
the image outside the image to make a note. | ||
 | 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 |
Image Border
Link: Helps to add an URL on image which when clicked directs to web browser in Interaction mode.
in an annotation from a selected image file. Annotation can be resized as required. | ||||
| Timestamp | Timestamp, Rubber stamp and Link annotations are grouped together.
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| Clipart/Images | Displays a list of defined web URLs. Click on the links to open images in a browser. Drag and drop Clip art/Images from browser to the canvas. These images will be converted into embedded image annotations. They can also be dropped on toolbar to import and open as a new image in a tab. |
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Vector Icons | Adds a selected vector icon on image and canvas. Recently selected icons along with a set of predefined icons are presented in a popup for selection. These are font icons. In order to change the color of an icon, font color needs to be changed. It acts as foreground color for icons. |
| Vector Icon browser |
A large collection of vector icons are displayed in Icon browser. Icons can be copied or dragged and dropped to the image/canvas. |
Table 2: Draw Mode Options
2.1 Annotation Properties:
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
- Image Mode
Image mode has options to Resize, Rotate, Flip, adjust Brightness & contrast and apply Effects etc. on image.
Figure 3: Image Mode
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Icon Name
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Resize Image
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Re-sizes the image with the provided dimension.
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Resize Canvas
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Re-sizes canvas position, width, height, colour etc. with values modified by User.
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Rotate
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Rotates the image clockwise in 90° incrementally.
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Flip Vertical
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Flips the selected image and any annotations that are burnt on image or canvas vertically.
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Flip Horizontal
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Flips the selected image and any annotations that are burnt on image or canvas horizontally.
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Image Auto Level
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Corrects Image features such as brightness, contrast etc. to auto level.
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Image Auto Color Correction
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Corrects colour proportion of image.
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Brightness & Contrast
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Adjusts brightness and contrast of image.
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Image Formats
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Different image formats like greyscale-8bpp and editing image samples is possible.
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Colour Effects
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Series of color effects like Invert color, Black & White etc.. are available.
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Filters
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Options like eroding, blurring, sharpening etc. of image are available.
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Image Effects
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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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Icon Name
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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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Click to open category Editor window, where user can manage categories/sub categories.
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Rating
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Allows providing rating to image.
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Flag
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Adds a flag to image for quick identification.
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Web Visual Bookmark
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Differentiates web captures from the others..
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Tags
Tags help to describe an image/capture.
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Image Info
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Image details such as size, dimension etc... are displayed. User can edit image name and add description to image.
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Zoom
User can Zoom in/ out an image.
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To increase or decrease zoom value.
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Drop down to choose among the predefined values provided.
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Display image to 100% Zoom.
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Gives a best view of image.
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First
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Opens first image among all tabs.
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Previous
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Opens previous image of current tab.
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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”.
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Next
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Opens next image of current tab.
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Last
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Opens the last image among all tabs.
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Drag Me
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Drags the current tab’s image to any application.
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Slideshow
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Full screen view of opened tabs.
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History
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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.
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Dimensions
Gives image dimension and size details.
Table 5: Status bar Options
5. Tool Bar:
Tool bar has icons to access tools for file operations and image formatting.
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New Image(Cntl+N)
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Creates a new Image.
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Open File(Cntl+O)
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Opens a file from file directory
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Reload File
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Reloads image to its original loaded state after any change.
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Cut(Ctrl+X)
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Cuts any selected annotation/text.
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Copy(Ctrl+C)
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Copies selected annotation/text.
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Paste(Ctrl+V)
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Pastes the clipboard data on image or canvas.
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Undo(Ctrl+Z)
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Undo the most recent action.
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Redo(Ctrl+Y)
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Redo’s the most recent action that is undone.
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Fill Color
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Fills background colour to the selected annotation.
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Outline Width
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Provides outline width to the selected annotation.
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Outline Color
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Provides outline colour to the selected annotation.
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Font Size
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Applies font size to the selected annotation.
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Font Color
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Applies font color to the selected annotation.
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Highlighter Color
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Applies highlighter color to the selected annotation.
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Preset Colors
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Applies preset colors available to the selected annotation.
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Arrange
Arranges multiple annotations or images as per selection.
Bring Front Moves selected annotation to front.
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Bring Forward: Moves selected annotation on top of other annotations.
Send Back: Moves selected annotation back.
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Send Backward: Moves selected annotation last of other annotations.
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Un Group All: Ungroups all annotations on canvas.
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Group All: Groups all annotations on canvas.
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Align
Aligns multiple annotations or images in user selected format.
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Align Left: Aligns selected annotations to left.
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Align Top: Aligns selected annotations to top.
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Align Right: Aligns selected annotations to right.
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Align Bottom: Aligns selected annotations to bottom.
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Align Horizontal Center: Aligns selected annotations at centre horizontally.
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Align Vertical Center: Aligns selected annotations at centre vertically.
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Distribute Horizontally: Annotations will be distributed horizontally.
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Distribute Vertically: Annotations will be distributed vertically.
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Flatten Annotations
(Alt+Ins)
Burns annotations on image or canvas.
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Selected Annotation
: Burns only selected annotations on canvas.
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All annotations on the image
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All annotations on the canvas
: Burns all annotations available on canvas and re-sizes canvas according to it.
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Remove All Annotations
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Erases all annotations on canvas.
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Hide All Annotations
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Hides annotations on image and canvas.
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Crop Image
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Crop a part of image.
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Copy Image Area
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Copies an image area selected by user.
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Magnifier
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Magnifies any section or part of image for a much detailed view.
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Save (Cntl+S)
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Saves the image.
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Delete(Del)
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Deletes image and selected annotations on image or canvas.
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Print(Cntl+P)
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Prints the image.
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Thumbnail View
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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.)
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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
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If a web capture is made, URL of that capture is remembered and by clicking this icon it directs to that web page.
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Slideshow
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To display screenshots in slide mode for quick presentation.
Table 6: Tool bar Options
6. Menu bar:
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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New Image
Creates a new image.
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New Capture
Provides multiple options available to capture.
Region: Captures a selected region of current working window. Press Escape to de-select.
Last Region: Recently Captured Region will be opened as a new image.
Region Text: Extract & capture text from any image or screenshot which can be readily edited and copied.
Full Screen: Captures full screen
Connect laptop to a monitor and setup two displays. Laptop display is display one and monitor is display two.
i) Displays: It provides information of screen’s dimensions.
ii) Primary with Taskbar: Captures the complete screen of primary display along with taskbar.
iii) Primary without Taskbar: Captures the complete screen of primary display without taskbar.
iii) All Displays with Taskbar: Captures full screen of connected displays with taskbar.
iv)All Displays without Taskbar: Captures full screen of connected displays without taskbar
Active Window: Captures full screen of selected active window that is listed.
Timed: Captures a selected region of window after a time delay. E.g. 10 seconds this can be adjusted in User preferences.
Continuous Region: Continuously captures a selected region at specified intervals selected by user continuously and the captures will be displayed in the editor.
Window: Captures different portions of the most recent window as per user selection.
Web: Captures the webpage of the Web URL provided by the user. Browser size and delay can be modified as per user requirement.
Scrolling Window: Captures a scrolling web page/document/window completely from first click to end of page.
To stop the scrolling in between clicks, use Windows or Alt button.
Camera: Web camera of the system is used to capture the image. User can adjust camera settings and capture images.
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New from Clipboard
Opens the clipboard image in new tab.
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Open File
Opens a selected image from file directory.
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Close(Cntl+W)
Closes the tab opened in Pixit.
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Save(Cntl+S)
Saves file.
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Save as(Cntl+Alt+S)
File will be saved with user specified name and format in selected directory.
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Delete(Cntl+Alt+D)
Delete’s selected image.
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Print(Cntl+P)
Print’s the images with a variety of settings.
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Close Pixit(Alt+F4)
Closes Pixit window, but application runs in task manager and appears in tray. User can perform all capture options. (Refer: Pixit Tray options for more details).
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Exit Pixit(Alt+F5)
Shutdowns Pixit application.
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Edit
Edit tab has commands to Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste etc...
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Undo(Ctrl+Z)
Undo the most recent action.
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Redo(Ctrl+Y)
Redo the most recent action that is undone.
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Cut(Ctrl+X)
Cuts any selected annotation/text.
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Copy(Ctrl+C)
Copies selected annotation/text.
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Paste(Ctrl+V)
Pastes the clipboard data on image or canvas.
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Clear Clipboard
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Clears the content of clipboard.
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Duplicate Annotations(Ctrl+D)
Selected annotation will be duplicated.
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Delete Annotation(Del)
Deletes selected annotation on image or canvas, if no annotation is selected deletes image.
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Select All(Ctrl+A)
Selects all the annotations on image and canvas.
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Flatten
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Burns annotations in 3 ways
1. Selected annotations: Burns only selected annotations.
2. All annotations on the image: Burns annotations on image after which they become a part of the image.
3. All annotations on the canvas: Burns annotations on image or canvas and image will be resized to fit all annotations in one boundary.
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Window
Window tab has commands to open Grid view, Home, Browse, etc. Options.
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Grid View
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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.)
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Home
A dashboard with complete count of PixIt files appear.
(Example: Imported files, Captured images etc.)
Below is an image how the dashboard appears
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Browse
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Helps to fetch PixIt files either by Created date or Categories.
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Search
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User can search for files in PixIt by Created date, Category, Rating and applications captured.
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Explorer
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Opens file directory to browse images.
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Save
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Different file saving options like Zip, Creating folders, sub folders and destination folder are available.
Files can be saved in different formats like Bmp, Gif, Jpeg, Png, and Tiff.
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Share
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Shares the selected images to multiple cloud upload, office exports, applications like Jira, social media, etc.
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Contacts
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Create / Edit Contacts.
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Help
Help tab has commands like preference, register Pixit etc.
Preferences | Helps to add user preferences.
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Register Pixit | Register Pixit Allows user to register with Pixit.
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Check for updates | User can check for any updates about Pixit.
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About Pixit | Information of Pixit application. |
Table 7: Menu Bar options
- Tab Bar:
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Image Toolbox (6)
Image toolbox provides options for image manipulation including Resize, Rotate, Flip, adjust Brightness & contrast and apply Effects etc. on the image. This toolbox can be selected by clicking on the toggle button below right hand toolbox.
Button Icon | Name | Description |
| Resize Image | Re-sizes the image with the provided dimensions. |
| Resize Canvas | Re-sizes the canvas position, width, height, color etc. with values provided. |
 | 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. Unflattened annotations are not rotated. |
 | Flip Horizontal | Flips the selected image and any annotations that are burnt on image or canvas horizontally. Unflattened annotations are not rotated. |
| Image Border | Enables setting image border. A dialog is presented to select border settings. They can be saved as default for reuse. |
 | Image Auto Level | Auto levels the brightness and contrast of the image. |
| Image Auto Color Correction | Auto corrects the image colors |
| Brightness & Contrast | Helps to adjust the brightness and contrast of the image. |
| Image Formats | Support converting into different image formats such as Grey Scale 8bits/pixel. |
| Color Effects | Series of color effects like Invert color, Black & White etc.. are available. |
| Filters | Applies the selected filters such as eroding, blurring, and sharpening |
| Image Effects | Applies the selected image effect on a loaded image. |
Annotation Properties
Right click on annotation; a property window will be opened. Style, Text, Effects, Size, Presets options are available under “Properties” window.
Tab name | Description |
Style | Options to change properties of Outline, Fill and Arrows are present. |
Text | Text, URL and Font style options are available. Font icon color can be changed from here as well. |
Effects | Shadow Effect options are available |
Size | Size, Location and Rotation properties can be modified. |
Presets | Shape properties like Preset and Opacity can be modified. |
Tab Bar
Application unlike any other screen capturing tools supports multi-tabbed interface. User can have the same experience as browser without requiring them to open one image at a time to review the content. User can drag and drop, arrange, rename, duplicate, copy the tabs.
User can adjust the maximum tab limit in user preferences. Any opened document not visible in the tab-row can be viewed in tab drop down.
Figure 5: Tab bar Options
- Canvas:
The workspace , rename, duplicate, copy the tabs. The maximum tab limit can be adjusted in user preferences. Any opened document not visible in the tab-row can be viewed in tab drop down. Please see the tab bar options in the following screenshots:
Tab Context Menu: Right click on a tab header to see the context menu | Tab List in a Drop Down: Click on the drop down button at the end of tabs to see list of all tabs. | Maximum Open Tab Limit setting in User preferences |
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Canvas
The work space to do all operations on image is Canvas. Pixit Application supports two types of canvas, one is Image Canvas and the other is Virtual Canvas. Image Canvas is a region to view and edit images imported or captured with Pixitin the application. Region around the image canvas after importing/embedding the image is the Virtual canvas.
Pixit supports adding annotations in both canvas. Unlike other products Application supports adding annotations in Virtual Canvas is seamlessly doneboth canvases. Virtual canvas helps the user not to worry about expanding the image canvas to add annotations. Tool will take care of auto canvas expansion when copied into external applications.
Figure 6: Image and Virtual Canvas
In above Figure 6, region within orange the blue border that has the image is Image Canvas and region outside blue border inside orange border till blue border is Virtual Canvas.
Thumbnail
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- To open Thumbnail view choose icon choose
icon from the Toolbar or navigate to “Window” -> “Grid view”. - This gives the thumbnail view of all the images opened in Pixit the editor. It helps user to select or deselect required images that can be exported to any of “Share”
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- the "Share" options.
Thumbnail View
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Tray Options
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When Pixit the application is closed, application will be in minimised statea minimized state running in the background. All capture operations available in the tray (Refer: Figure 5) can be performed with Shortcuts or menu options. Shortcuts can be modified in User user preferences. Pixit Editor can be opened by double clicking the icon when it is closed.
- Category:
Pixit stores a lot of images, 
Image Properties
Applications manages a large number of images and to fetch an image among a number of files, created/modified date, categories, rating, tags and flag are used. Categories help to identify the appropriate images. Rate and flag are used to differentiate each image. Tags are helpful to quickly point an image. Details of image such as name, file type, size etc. are available under Image info.
Category:
User can add category to images to reduce time of search. User can save images with category as main folder and subcategory as sub folder in file directory.
- By default the category and sub-category is named as
Figure 9: Default Category-sub category
- Click to add, describe, edit and delete a category – subcategory (Refer: Figure 7).
Figure 10: Category Editor
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help to identify the appropriate images. Rating and flag are used to further differentiate images. Tags are helpful to associate keywords with the images. Details of image such as name, file type, size etc. are available in Image info. panel. Image properties can be changes in the bottom status bar.
Category:
User can add category and sub-category to images for better organization. These properties are used in searching for relevant images and also for sharing. By default, the category and sub-category are set to pre-defined default values (Default-Default). Each category can have any number of sub-categories. Any new capture taken will be initialized with default values. These can be easily changed.Each category can have any number of sub-categories. For example, Marketing category can have Events and Presentations as sub categories.
Click 
button to open Category Manager for adding, updating and removing categories and associated subcategories. Please see the category manager in the following figure.
Select sub-category tab, choose a parent Category from the drop down
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Figure 11: Subcategory editor window
categories. Please see the following figure.
Rating:
Rating help helps user to classify images.to give a relative weight to an image. Rating is in the range 1-5.
Hover on the stars and select the stars to rate an image. After the image is rated
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Flag:
Click Flag icon
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Visual Bookmark:
For captures made from the web
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Tags:
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Figure 12: Tag
- In Manage Tags add, edit, view file count and delete tags.
Figure 13: Tag Editor
Image Info: Image details are available under Image info. Pixit saves the image details as meta-data which will on, 
, to enter tags or select from the listed tags for the active image. Each tag must be followed by ';' to add the tag. All new tags are stored in the repository and can be reused. These tags help to search images better.
Click on Manage Tags button to open tag manger interface for managing tags for all images.
Image Info:
Image details are available on clicking Image info. 
,button, Application saves the image details as image properties that can be used to organize and search images.
- Click to view image details.
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Both image name and description can be edited directly using the edit button in this pop-up. Description is used in exporting images to word format. Application property is used to identify the main application that contains this capture and Window title corresponds to title of the Window or Title of the web page. For images captured from web,
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application stores the URL of capture and saves it, which when clicked
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to open the web-page in browser.
Annotations
: All the annotations added on the image with respective annotation type, created time, created user, location information is available which will be helpful in building wireframedesigning wire frame drawings.
Histogram
: Color tones like histograms for Luminosity, Red, Green, Blue along with Dimensions, Pixels and other image color information are obtained here so that user can modify them in Image mode if required.
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- and Blue can be obtained by clicking on the Histogram button in the Image Info panel.
Context Menu Options
Any image captured or imported to Pixit has following options on the right click (Refer: Figure 14).
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| Bring Forward | Brings selected embedded images, annotations on an image forward. |
| Send Backward | Sends selected embedded images, annotations on an image backward. |
| Open In | Open the image in MS Paint, MS Picture Manager, and System viewers. |
| Set as Background | Sets the image that is opened |
as desktop background. | ||
| Copy image to clipboard | Copy |
the image |
to Clipboard (Ctrl+C). | ||
| Copy Canvas to Clipboard | Copies image along with annotations (e.g. Text, Icons) on the canvas to |
Clipboard. | ||
| 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 |
Flattens annotations on image or canvas. Selected Annotation: |
Flattens only selected annotations on canvas. All annotations on the image: |
Flattens all annotations available on image and the burnt annotations now become part of image. All annotations on the canvas: |
Flattens all annotations available on canvas and re-sizes canvas to fit all annotations in it. |