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GetPixit is an innovative screen capture, share and management software. It enables capturing screens and images in a variety of ways and facilitates sharing them with cloud and non-cloud applications seamlessly. It also comes with an editing tool for image annotations and manipulating (modifying) imagesmodifications. This application lets user to capture high quality images, manage and organize them under different groupings such as Categories, Sub categories, Tags, etc., which will later on be helpful while searching for a particular image.
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| 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 (submenu) when submenu 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 | Displays a dashboard view with image counts for captured, imported, shared images along with the amount of space taken by them. An example 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 category, sub-category and creation date. Recently captured and modified images can also be quickly browsed. |
| 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 (necessary??). These contacts are used for contact email address auto-fill support in the email sender component. (This information is used to autofill contacts in emails). |
| Import | Imports 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 here. There is no explicit saving requirements. When a parameter value is changed, it is effective right away ( immediately), 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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Menu bar has the operational menus providing a way to the features. However, almost all menu items have corresponding icon buttons in the main window. So, 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.
Each of the menus and sub-menus (submenus) are submenus are explained below.
| Menu | Sub-menu (Submenu)Submenu | 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 (with short-term use.) after use ('permanently' OR 'again' OR 'in the future')to be saved 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 ( submenu). 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, as 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 (necessary???). Corresponding application is opened and brought to front and (the) screenshot the 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 modified 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 URI 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 Tray 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) | 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 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) | Duplicates the selected annotation(s). | |
Delete Annotation (Del) | Deletes the 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 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 | Shows any pending product updates which are not yet installed. 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. | |
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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. Manage 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 | ||||||||
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Button Icon | Name | Description | ||||||||||||||||
| 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 an image. This is helpful to restore the original file, in case the modifications made are no longer wanted. | ||||||||||||||||
| 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) | Undoes the most recent action. | ||||||||||||||||
| Redo (Ctrl+Y) | Redoes 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 are 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. | ||||||||||||||||
| Copy 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 the area can be filled with a selected color . After selecting the copy image area, right click to see the available options as shown below:
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| Magnifier | Magnifies any section or part of image for a much detailed view. | ||||||||||||||||
| Image Area Selector | 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 of 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 the description on the bottom right side. | ||||||||||||||||
| Open in Browser | If a web capture is made, URL of that capture is remembered. Clicking this icon takes to that web page. | ||||||||||||||||
| Slideshow | Displays screenshots in slide mode. |
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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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| Arrow | Draws arrow on the image/canvas
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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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Geometric Shapes | Allows drawing different geometric shapes on the image.
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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 add a note on the image outside the image to make a note (, but outside the image). OR This annotation is usually used to add a note about the image. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 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 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 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. |
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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° increments. |
 | 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 (Automatically sets) 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 | Supports converting into different image formats such as Grey Scale 8bits8 bits/pixel. |
| Color Effects | Supports a series of color effects like Invert color, Black & White etc. |
| Filters | Applies the selected filters such as eroding, blurring, and sharpening |
| Image Effects | Applies the selected image effect on a loaded image. |
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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 (7)
Application unlike any other screen capturing tools supports multi-tabbed interface. (This is a feature unique to GetPixit and currently not supported in any other screen capturing tool. Tab Bar supports multi-tabbed interface, allowing the user to open Multi-tabbed interface allows to open and operate on multiple images at the same time similar to Internet browser tabs.)
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. 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.
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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
Application manages a large number of images and to fetch an image among a number of files, created/modified date, categories, rating, tags and flag can be used. (GetPixit users typically manage thousands of image filesimages. In order to find specific image(s), any of the following identifiers can be used (to narrow down the search) - categoriesimage properties, (sub)category, tags, createdcreate/modified datedates, rating and flag can be used.)
Categories 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 changed in the bottom status bar.
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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 ( 'Application') property is used to identify the main application that contains this capture and (the) Window title ( 'Window Title') corresponds to the title of the window or title of the web page. For images captured from web, application stores the URL of capture and saves it (necessary??), which when clicked to ( will) 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. (: For all the annotations added on the image, the corresponding details such as 'Annotation Type', 'Creation Time', 'Created By', and 'Location' are
savedmaintained.
(They will be helpful
, if there is a need in the future to design wire frame drawings.) OR (They will be helpful to design wire frame drawings later on))
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to design wire frame drawings in future product updates.
Histogram
Color histograms for Luminosity, Red, Green, and Blue can be obtained by clicking on the Histogram button in the Image Info panel.
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