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Button Icon | Name | Description |
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Capture Buttons | ||
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. | |
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. |
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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 |
Canvas
The work space to do all operations on image is Canvas. 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 in the application. Region around the image canvas after importing/embedding the image is the Virtual canvas.
Application supports adding annotations in both 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.
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- To open Thumbnail view choose icon from the Toolbar or navigate to “Window” -> “Grid view”.
- This gives the thumbnail view of all the images opened in the editor. It helps user to select or deselect required images that can be exported to any of the "Share" options.
Thumbnail View
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When the application is closed, application will be in a minimized state running in the background. All capture operations available in the tray can be performed with Shortcuts or menu options. Shortcuts can be modified in user preferences. Editor can be opened by double clicking the icon when it is closed.
Image Properties
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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 for managing sub-categories. Please see the following figure.
Rating:
Rating helps user 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, the main star background color intensity changes appropriately.
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Click 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.
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, application stores the URL of capture and saves it, which when clicked 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 designing wire frame drawings.
Histogram
Color histograms for Luminosity, Red, Green, and Blue can be obtained by clicking on the Histogram button in the Image Info panel.
Context Menu Options
Any image captured or imported has following options on the right click:
Icon | Menu Item Name | Description |
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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. |
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