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 the full screen of the current working window with the 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 the timer is running.

Active Window Capture

It opens a grid view of all active windows. The 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.

Video Capture

Captures video of selected screen area.

Expand Additional Capture Options

Additional capture options can be opened in a pop-up menu. 

Open

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:

Open

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 the user to online documentation and training videos.

Browse

This 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, Webp and Tiff. Files can be saved in predefined folders: desktop, pictures, documents, and videos. In addition, files can be saved in Zip format with the Category/Sub-category folder structure. The 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 applications such as Jira, Google Drive, etc.

Contacts

Helps to manage Contacts in this fly-out. These contacts are used for contact email address auto-fill support in the email sender component. 

Import

Imports files from the local file system. Files to be imported can be selected and reviewed before importing. Once files are imported, they are copied internally and are managed by the application. 

User Preferences

User Preferences

Users can change preferences/options for various application components here. There are no explicit saving requirements. When a parameter value is changed, it is effective immediately, except in some cases where explicit save is required. For example, the Capture Mouse Pointer option helps to include the cursor in the captured image.

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 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)

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.

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 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 (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

Window

Window menu has commands to open Grid view, Home, Browse, etc. options.

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.

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 the user preferences window.

Tools

The tools menu has commands to support recycle bin, manage data and linking with Pixtel mobile app in future.

Recycle Bin

Opens recycle bin interface to allow viewing all deleted files and provides options to recycle them or restore them.

Manage Data

Manage data by enabling backup and cleanup data support in addition to data relocation options

Local Backup: Create a backup of the local data in the backup folder. Backup folder can be changed as needed. If you have a cloud storage account such as Google drive, you can map the drive and backup data on Cloud file system.

Cloud Backup: In the future, Pixtel will provide an additional service to automatically backup data on Cloud and make the data accessible by Web.

Restore Backup: If there is any data corruption, backup data can be restored.

Relocate Data: If the file system where the Pixtel data is stored is full, you can relocate the data to a different drive that has a large space.

Cleanup Data: If there are several backup data folders and any duplicate data, cleanup data helps to remove the data and free up space.

Link Mobile

Pixtel is going to release Pixtel Mobile App which helps to take screenshots and pictures, videos and audio, and share that data with Pixtel Capture on Desktop to edit, manage and share it.

Help

The help menu has commands for registering, subscribing and updating the product.

Register

Helps to register the product providing user email address and names. Product registration is mandatory to use the product.

Subscribe

Helps to see the existing subscription details and also helps to purchase subscription from windows store or online.

Check for Updates

Shows any pending product updates which are not yet installed. It is recommended to keep the product updated.

Documentation

Product documentation opens in a browser.

About

Provides installed version number with a brief description.

Category

It helps to categorize images for easy search. Users can add, edit, and remove categories and sub-categories in the Category Manager.

Open	Click to open the Category Manager window, where the user can manage categories/subcategories.

The category helps the 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. The 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

The 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 the Tag Editor window where the 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. Users can edit the image name and add a description to an image.

ShareLink

Uploads the image to an online Pixtel image hosting service and creates a short URL that can be made available for accessing the image online. While sharing the image, you can also specify how long the image should be made available. Image is removed after the time lapses.

History

Gives the record of all the user actions on the image with versions. Users can revert back the changes of a particular version if required by selecting the row.

Zoom

Users can Zoom in/out of an image.

Open	To increase or decrease zoom value.
Open	Drop down to choose among the predefined zoom values provided.
Open	Displays image to 100% Zoom.
Open	Displays image with best-fit zoom option.

Navigation

Navigating and opening images based on the capture order.

First

Opens the 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 a tab, it is highlighted. To open all the images in a single tab, click “Open in place”.

Next

Opens the next image of the current tab.

Last

Opens the last image among all tabs.

Drag Me

Drags the current tab’s image to any application.

Message

Shows the current image dimensions and any active message corresponding to the recent operation

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 the file directory and import the file into the application.

Clippy