Content Comparison

New Image

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

New Capture

It 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 the application, it copies the image to the clipboard directly. This is very helpful for ad-hoc screen captures that are not required to be saved after use.

Last Region: The 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 11. If the text to be extracted is small, try to zoom into the image for better text extraction accuracy. Once the text is captured, it can be edited and copied into the clipboard. 

Full Screen: Captures full display screen. If there are multiple monitors, they are listed in Displays sub-menu. The 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 a primary screen in user preferences. When full-screen capture is executed, it takes a full-screen image of the primary display, as set in the preferences.

Sub-options in the menu are outlined as below:

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

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

Timed: Captures a selected region of a window after a time delay. The default timer value is 10 seconds and this can be modified in User Preferences.

Continuous Region: Continuously captures a selected region at a specified interval selected by the user and the first capture is displayed in the editor. Using the navigation buttons in the bottom middle section, the 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, URI can be opened in a browser for the 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 the page by automatically scrolling the content. There is a two-second delay set in the preferences to pause after each page down to enable the application to 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 the page by automatically scrolling the content. A region of interest for scrolling needs to be selected before capturing. This helps to remove unnecessary common content from the scrolling page. Sometimes, pages contain a left-side area dedicated to 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 the application to 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: The camera of the system is used to capture the image. Users can adjust camera settings and capture images.

Video: Comprehensive screen recording helps to record product demos, instructional videos, webinars, etc. While recording videos, screen snapshots can be taken as well.

Audio: Records audio from speakers and microphone with screenshot support to recognize the audio when searching for easy identification.

New Image from Clipboard

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

Open - File (Ctrl+O)

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

Close File (Ctrl+W)

Closes the currently opened tab.

Save (Ctrl+S)

 Saves the image in a file from the active tab. 

Save As (Ctrl+Alt+S)

The file will be saved with a user-specified name and format in a selected directory.

Delete(Ctrl+Alt+D)

Delete’s Deletes selected image.

Print(Cntl+P)

Print’s images with a variety of settings.

Close (Alt+F4)

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

Quit (Alt+F5)

Shutdowns the application.

Undo (Ctrl+Z)

Undoes the most recent action.

Redo (Ctrl+Y)

Redoes 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 the 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, image annotation is created with the clipboard image.

Clear Clipboard

Clears the contents of the clipboard.

Duplicate Annotations(Ctrl+D)

Duplicates the selected annotation(s).

Delete Annotation (Del) 

Deletes the selected annotations on image or canvas, if no annotation is selected, it deletes an image in the 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 the 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

Toggle Grid View

Thumbnail view representations for all opened images in Pixtel. 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.