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Region capture option is used to capture a region on the screen. A cross-hair appears on choosing region capture; drag it down and leave mouse to select the region. Pointer waits until user selects and drags on a region. Cursor point zooms-in the hovered region for a better view of capture co-ordinates. Click escape key or mouse right button to cancel the capture operation. In addition, press 'r' key to re-select the region if the original selection is wrong. User can customize in User preferences to show magnifier and capture mouse pointer.
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Capture preferences help to set capture delay, and enable/disable showing magnifier and mouse pointer. If 'Auto Clipboard Copy' is enabled, captured image is automatically copied to Clipboard. All screenshots captured using the region capture are maintained in PNG image format.
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Active Window captures the window of active application or browser or document that is listed.
- File -> New >New Capture -> Active Window displays menu of all the active windows that can be captured. Any of the active windows can be selected for capturing.
- Active Window Icon in Home bar displays Grid view of all the active documents that can be clicked to capture as shown in below Figure 10.
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Active
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Window Capture Thumbnails
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Refresh
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button loads any newly opened window to this grid view.
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Previous and Next can be used to navigate between tabs to view
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the thumbnails. Click on any thumbnail or thumbnail title button, it will open the corresponding window and takes a window capture.
Timed Capture:
Captures a region of window after a time delay (Ee.g. 10 seconds). Timed capture feature will be useful to capture Drop drop down menus of an application after the click of each option. Set the time delay you want the capture to start in User preferencesor dynamically changing content that needs interaction. The default time delay can be changed in User preferences as show below. Timer will start and run (Figure 12), shown below, after which option to capture the screen will appear.
Figure 11: User Preferences Settings Figure 12: Timer 
Continuous Region
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Continuous Region captures a fixed region of the screen continuously at user-specified time intervals by auto naming all the images with time stamps. (E.g. Helps This helps to capture frames of a video ).
Figure 13: User Preferences Settings
presentations. Duplicate captures can be discarded. By selecting File -> New Capture -> Continuous Region -> Select a region. (Figure 14 opens to set configurations).
Figure 14: Continuous Region Capture
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, application shows Continuous Capture Window for providing various parameters as shown below:
Configuring the images with Category, Subcategory and Tags help in retrieving the images quickly during search. Description added to the image will be helpful during Export; Description of the image along with the name will be exported with the image that can be shared. Application also has a self-timer feature that ensures capture at specified intervals. While capture is in progress, the counter appears at right side bottom
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as shown below:
After capture, a message window with image count will be displayed
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as a confirmation as shown below.
Figure 15: Counter Figure 16: Message Window
- If capture is stopped in between, images captured till that point will be displayed.
Figure 15: Continuous Area Capture
- Once done all the captured images will be opened in a single tab in the editor.
Figure 26: Open in Tab/Place
Window:
Once done, the first captured image is opened in a tab. Using the image navigation buttons, shown below, the rest of images can be viewed in the same tab or can be opened in separate tabs by toggling open in tabs icon in the middle, shown below (circled tab icon).
User preferences has a section on the Continuous capture. This section has capture format which is set to Jpg by default, maximum image limit, set to 3600 by default, duplicate difference set to 5% to discard duplicate images. This section is shown below.
Window
Allows user to take screenshot of a section sub-window or inner windows of a page or even the entire page in a click. Mouse hover shows the window panels with the dimensions to be select and capture. With a click, the region will be captured.
Figure 17: Window capture
Web:
Grabs a copy of the website as an image. Pixit processes the Webpage URL provided and convert it In the following, see an example for selecting a sub-window in word application.
Web:
Captures a web page in its entirety. Web Url is downloaded and processed. It is converted to produce a high quality file Capturefull page image. Enter a web page URL in the field or select an existing URL saved in Pixit to Capture. Complex web pages with more images has initial time to load so adjusting Delay accordingly helps to capture fully loaded webpage.
Figure 18: Web Capture
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Captured full length image is opened in a tab. In addition, web page can be opened in browser and can be captured. This is helpful if there are large number of dynamic elements in the page the needs scrolling to render before captures. With this approach, web page is captured to the best accuracy.
Scrolling Window
Scrolling window capture allows capturing a screenshot of any scrolling Page or Window. Captures a lengthy document or window completely till the end horizontally and convert converts it to a single image.
- Choose a Web page or window or application for Scrolling capture and have it as recent window.
- Select File -> New Capture -> Scrolling window
- Click inside the window/web page to start the scrolling capture.
Once capture is started Pixit capturing starts, page auto-scrolls and captures successive images. These images are stitched at the end removing duplicate and overlapping content. To stop the scrolling in between hit “Windows”/”Esc”/“Alt” keys.
Scrolling Region
Scrolling region capture allows capturing a screenshot of any scrolling Page or Window region ignoring common areas. For example, it may not be required to capture browser header or footer sections in a web page. Captures a lengthy document or window completely till the end horizontally and converts it to a single image.
- Choose a Web page or window or application for Scrolling capture and have it as recent window.
- Select File -> New Capture -> Scrolling region
- Select a region to capture in a scrolling window.
Once capturing starts, page auto-scrolls and captures the pages. To successive images. These images are stitched at the end removing duplicate and overlapping content. To stop the scrolling in between hit “Windows”/”Esc”/“Alt” keys.
Camera
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Web camera of the system is used to capture an image. User can adjust camera settings to capture images.
Figure 19: Camera Capture
First, select the camera that image needs to be captured and click on Start camera. Live video feed is display in the display area. When the image is stable, click on Capture image button to capture the image.
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