Introduction to Capture

GetPixit is an user-friendly tool that allows capturing high quality screenshots with various options such as Region Capture, Full Screen Capture, Continuous Region Capture, Window Capture etc. Description and usage of all the features are explained in this document. Captured image can be edited as required through editor and can be shared.

Navigate to File -> New Capture to find all the capture options available. Please see below:

Screenshots can also be captured with shortcuts using hotkeys. Shortcuts can be changed in user preferences. Application tries to set shortcuts based on the availability at the time of installation. If there are shortcut conflicts, conflicting shortcuts are removed.

Configuring the Image Capture Shortcuts (User Preferences → Shortcuts )

Region Capture

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.

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. 

Once the region is selected, screenshot in that region is captured and created as a new tab. Application tries to obtain the window tittle, and website url, etc. as applicable.

Region to Clipboard

This operates the same as Region capture and the only difference is that captured image is copied to Clipboard. GetPixit does not store the captured screenshot. This is helpful for transient captures which are not required to be managed and can be discarded after single use.

Last Region

Recently captured region will be remembered and it can be used to recapture as a New image with this option.

Region Text

GetPixit has integrated OCR technology that helps to extract text from images, video, documents, etc. Extracted text can be copied to clipboard using Copy Text. If the text in the screenshot is small, try to zoom-in for better text extraction. 

Example Region Text Capture

Full Screen

Captures full screenshot of the primary display. Captured image is displayed in a new Tab. There are various options for fullscreen capture. Fullscreen capture has support for multiple monitors. Submenu item options are shown below:

• Displays: The dimensions of connected displays are presented here. Any display can be selected to have a full screenshot of the display. 
• Primary with Taskbar: Fullscreen along with task bar of the primary display will be captured.

Full screen with taskbar

• Primary without Taskbar: Fullscreen without task bar of the primary display will be captured.

Full screen without taskbar 

In general, primary display is the display 1 in the Windows display settings. However, depending on the requirement, this can be changed in the User preferences and a different display can be set as primary. 

•  All Displays with Taskbar: If there are multiple monitors connected, all display screens along with the task bars will be captured. Note that if the monitors have different resolutions, resulting capture may contain empty space in a low resolution monitor screen section.

Displays with Taskbar

• All Displays without Taskbar: When connected to monitor both the screens without Taskbar will be captured. 

Displays without Taskbar

Active window

Active Window captures the window of active application or browser or document that is listed.

• File -> New Capture -> Active Window displays menu of all the active windows that can be captured.
• 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.

Figure 10: Active window Capture

Refresh loads any newly opened window to this grid view.

Previous and Next can be used to navigate between tabs to view the images.

Timed:

Captures a region of window after a time delay (E.g. 10 seconds). Timed capture feature will be useful to capture Drop down menus of an application after the click of each option.  Set the time delay you want the capture to start in User preferences. Timer will start and run (Figure 12), after which option to capture the screen will appear.

                                                              Figure 11: User Preferences Settings                                                            Figure 12: Timer     

Continuous Region:

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 to capture frames of a video).

Figure 13: User Preferences Settings

File -> New Capture -> Continuous Region -> Select a region.  (Figure 14 opens to set configurations).

    Figure 14: Continuous Region Capture

• Pixit also has a self-timer feature that ensures capture at specified intervals. While capture is in progress the counter appears at right side bottom (Figure 15).
• After capture a message window with image count will be displayed (Figure 16).

                           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:

Allows user to take screenshot of a section 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 to produce a high quality file Capture. 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        

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 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 auto-scrolls the document and captures the pages.  To stop the scrolling in between hit “Windows”/”Esc”/“Alt” keys.

Camera:

Web camera of the system is used to capture an image. User can adjust camera settings to capture images.

        Figure 19: Camera Capture