GetPixit is an innovative screen capture, share and management software. It enables to capture screens and images in a variety of ways and facilitates sharing them with cloud and non-cloud applications seamlessly and also comes with an editing tool for image annotations and manipulating images. This application lets user to capture high quality images, manage and organize them with different options such as Categories, Sub categories, Tags, etc., which will be helpful for searching a particular image among a number of captures.

Just press a hotkey and GetPixit will take a screenshot of your screen or the entire window with extensive capture option support. Inbuilt app integration supports cloud sharing with Google Drive, OneDrive, OneNote, Box, DropBox, Facebook, Jira, and others. Application contains a single highly usable window with most of the functionality available through icon buttons around the border. Both capture and editing tools are in single place.

GetPixit Main Window

Figure 1: GetPixit Main Window

All features are available around the tool on four sides providing middle area for image display. All features are grouped into meaningful sections. Home bar on the left comprises of capture buttons on the top, management buttons with fly-out panels in the middle and user preferences in the bottom. File, Edit, Window and Help menus are in the menu bar on the top. In the bottom, captured image properties along with image navigation and drag me buttons are managed in status bar. Toolbar on the top below menu bar, consists of common buttons for annotation editing and changing properties in addition to grid view and smart pencil buttons on the top right. Image annotation and image editing tools are located on the right. These tools can be toggled using a toggle button on the right bottom. In the following, each of the sections are explained in detail.

Home Bar (1)

Home bar is the left most quick access bar that has options to capture, manage the captured images and user preferences.

Button Icon	Name	Description
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.

Draw Mode

Toggle the button to switch between Draw and Image mode on right hand side of the Pixit editor. Draw mode has editing tools like Highlighter, Blur rectangle, Sticky note and annotations to add on canvas such as Text, Arrows, Lines, Counters etc., that enables the user to edit captured images.

Figure 2: Draw Mode

Icon

Icon Name

Description

Cursor

Selects one or multiple objects, to move or resize the object.

Text

Adds any text on image and canvas.

	Text: Adds plain text without any box.
	Enclosed text: Adds text along with a rectangular box.
	Text with arrow: Adds text inside text box with arrow.

Arrow

Draws arrow in the image/canvas

Arrow: Draws a broad arrow

Edge Arrow: Draws an arrow with edged point in one end

Line Arrow: Draws a single/double pointed line arrow.

Freehand Lines

Allows drawing freehand lines on an image.

Geometric Shapes

Allows drawing different geometric shapes on the image.

	Line: Draw lines.
	Lines: Draw joined straight lines with clicked points.
	Lines with Interpolation: Draw curves with clicked points.
	Rectangle: Draws a rectangle with cornered edges.
	Rounded Rectangle: Draws a rectangle with round edges.
	Ellipse: Draws an ellipse.
	Polygon: Draws a filled polygon with the click points.
	Polygon with Interpolation: Draws a filled interpolated smooth edged polygon with the click points.
	Freehand Polygon: Draws a filled freehand polygon with the click points.

Highlight

Highlights a region on image.

Blur Rectangle

Blurs a portion of image.

Sticky Note

Adds a sticky note on image and canvas.

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 to canvas from file directory.

Image Border

	Link: Helps to add an URL on image which when clicked directs to web browser in Interaction mode.
	Time stamp: Adds Timestamp along with image metadata like categories, creation time, dimensions etc. User can modify the default template in User -preferences.It is editable even if the default template is completely erased.
	Rubber Stamp: Helps to add stamp on the image E.g. Approved by <User-name>. User can modify the default template in User -preferences. It is editable even if the default template is completely erased.

Clip art/Images

Has web URL’s to drag and drop Clip art/Images. They can be dropped on toolbar to open as a new image.

Icon

Adds selected vector icon on image and canvas.

Icon browser

Huge collection of vector icons. Icons can be copied or dragged and dropped to the image/canvas.

Table 2: Draw Mode Options

2.1 Annotation Properties:

Right click on annotation; a property window will be opened. Style, Text, Effects, Size, Presets options are available under “Properties” window. (Refer: Table 3)

Property	Description
Style	Options to change properties of Outline, Fill and Arrows are present.
Text	Text, URL and Font style options are available.
Effects	Colours and Effect options are available
Size	Size, Location and Rotation properties can be modified.
Presets	Shape properties like Preset and Opacity can be modified.

Table 3: Properties

Image Mode

Image mode has options to Resize, Rotate, Flip, adjust Brightness & contrast and apply Effects etc. on image.

Figure 3: Image Mode

Icon	Icon Name	Description
	Resize Image	Re-sizes the image with the provided dimension.
	Resize Canvas	Re-sizes canvas position, width, height, colour etc. with values modified by User.
	Rotate	Rotates the image clockwise in 90° incrementally.
	Flip Vertical	Flips the selected image and any annotations that are burnt on image or canvas vertically.
	Flip Horizontal	Flips the selected image and any annotations that are burnt on image or canvas horizontally.
	Image Auto Level	Corrects Image features such as brightness, contrast etc. to auto level.
	Image Auto Color Correction	Corrects colour proportion of image.
	Brightness & Contrast	Adjusts brightness and contrast of image.
	Image Formats	Different image formats like greyscale-8bpp and editing image samples is possible.
	Colour Effects	Series of color effects like Invert color, Black & White etc.. are available.
	Filters	Options like eroding, blurring, sharpening etc. of image are available.
	Image Effects	Applies the selected image effect on a loaded image. (Example: Grayscale, Halftone…)

Table 4: Image Mode Options

4. Status Bar:

Status bar is located at the bottom of the Pixit window which has options to group an image to a category-sub category, rate an image, bookmark, add tags, provide image information, zoom etc., that helps in managing the images.

Figure 4: Status Bar

Icon

Icon Name

Description

6. Menu bar:

Menu bar has the operational menus of Pixit with various features.

Icon

Description

File

File tab has commands to Open, Capture, Save, Delete, Print, and Close images.

New Image

Creates a new image.

New Capture

Provides multiple options available to capture.

Region: Captures a selected region of current working window. Press Escape to de-select.

Last Region: Recently Captured Region will be opened as a new image.

Region Text: Extract & capture text from any image or screenshot which can be readily edited and copied.

Full Screen: Captures full screen

Connect laptop to a monitor and setup two displays. Laptop display is display one and monitor is display two.

i) Displays: It provides information of screen’s dimensions.

ii) Primary with Taskbar: Captures the complete screen of primary display along with taskbar.

iii) Primary without Taskbar: Captures the complete screen of primary display without taskbar.

iii) All Displays with Taskbar: Captures full screen of connected displays with taskbar.

iv)All Displays without Taskbar: Captures full screen of connected displays without taskbar

Active Window: Captures full screen of selected active window that is listed.

Timed: Captures a selected region of window after a time delay. E.g. 10 seconds this can be adjusted in User preferences.

Continuous Region: Continuously captures a selected region at specified intervals selected by user continuously and the captures will be displayed in the editor.

Window: Captures different portions of the most recent window as per user selection.

Web: Captures the webpage of the Web URL provided by the user. Browser size and delay can be modified as per user requirement.

Scrolling Window: Captures a scrolling web page/document/window completely from first click to end of page.

To stop the scrolling in between clicks, use Windows or Alt button.

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

New from Clipboard

Opens the clipboard image in new tab.

Open File

Opens a selected image from file directory.

Close(Cntl+W)

Closes the tab opened in Pixit.

Save(Cntl+S)

Saves file.

Save as(Cntl+Alt+S)

File will be saved with user specified name and format in selected directory.

Delete(Cntl+Alt+D)

Delete’s selected image.

Print(Cntl+P)

Print’s the images with a variety of settings.

Close Pixit(Alt+F4)

Closes Pixit window, but application runs in task manager and appears in tray. User can perform all capture options. (Refer: Pixit Tray options for more details).

Exit Pixit(Alt+F5)

Shutdowns Pixit application.

Edit

Edit tab has commands to Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste etc...

Undo(Ctrl+Z)

Undo the most recent action.

Redo(Ctrl+Y)

Redo 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.

Clear Clipboard

Clears the content of clipboard.

Duplicate Annotations(Ctrl+D)

Selected annotation will be duplicated.

Delete Annotation(Del)

Deletes selected annotation on image or canvas, if no annotation is selected deletes image.

Select All(Ctrl+A)

Selects all the annotations on image and canvas.

Flatten

Burns annotations in 3 ways

1. Selected annotations: Burns only selected annotations.

2. All annotations on the image: Burns annotations on image after which they become a part of the image.

3. All annotations on the canvas: Burns annotations on image or canvas and image will be resized to fit all annotations in one boundary.

Window

Window tab 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. (Refer: Thumbnail View for more details.)
Home	A dashboard with complete count of PixIt files appear. (Example: Imported files, Captured images etc.) Below is an image how the dashboard appears
Browse	Helps to fetch PixIt files either by Created date or Categories.
Search	User can search for files in PixIt by Created date, Category, Rating and applications captured.
Explorer	Opens file directory to browse images.
Save	Different file saving options like Zip, Creating folders, sub folders and destination folder are available. Files can be saved in different formats like Bmp, Gif, Jpeg, Png, and Tiff.
Share	Shares the selected images to multiple cloud upload, office exports, applications like Jira, social media, etc.
Contacts	Create / Edit Contacts.

Help

Help tab has commands like preference, register Pixit etc.

Preferences	Helps to add user preferences.
Register Pixit	Register Pixit Allows user to register with Pixit.
Check for updates	User can check for any updates about Pixit.
About Pixit	Information of Pixit application.

Table 7: Menu Bar options

Tab Bar:

Pixit unlike any other screen capturing tool supports multi-tab interface. 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.

User can adjust the maximum tab limit in user preferences. Any opened document not visible in the tab-row can be viewed in tab drop down.

Figure 5: Tab bar Options

Canvas:

The workspace to do all operations on image is Canvas. Pixit 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 with Pixit. Region around the image canvas after importing/embedding the image is the Virtual canvas.

Pixit supports adding annotations in both canvas. Unlike other products adding annotations in Virtual Canvas is seamlessly done. 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.

Figure 6: Image and Virtual Canvas

In above Figure 6, region within orange border that has the image is Image Canvas and region outside orange border till blue border is Virtual Canvas.

Thumbnail view:

To open Thumbnail view choose icon from Toolbar or navigate to “Window” -> “Grid view”.
This gives the thumbnail view of all the images opened in Pixit editor. It helps user to select or deselect required images that can be exported to any of “Share”

Figure 7: Thumbnail View

10. Pixit Tray Options:

When Pixit is closed, application will be in minimised state. All capture operations available in the tray (Refer: Figure 5) can be performed with Shortcuts or menu options. Shortcuts can be modified in User preferences. Pixit Editor can be opened by double clicking the icon when it is closed.

Category:

Pixit stores a lot of images, to fetch an image among a number of files categories, rating, tags and flag are used. Categories help to identify the appropriate images. Rate and flag are used to differentiate each image. Tags are helpful to quickly point an image. Details of image such as name, file type, size etc. are available under Image info.

Category:

User can add category to images to reduce time of search. User can save images with category as main folder and subcategory as sub folder in file directory.

By default the category and sub-category is named as

Figure 9: Default Category-sub category

Click to add, describe, edit and delete a category – subcategory (Refer: Figure 7).

Figure 10: Category Editor

In sub-category, choose a parent Category from drop down and then add the sub-category

Figure 11: Subcategory editor window

Rating:

Rating help user to classify images.

Hover on the stars and select the stars to rate an image. After the image is rated the stars turn blue.

Flag:

Click icon to make an image flagged.

Web Visual Bookmark:

For captures made from web enable visual bookmark to retrieve captures quickly during search.

Tags:

Click a tab opens to enter a tag and select from listed tags to image.

Figure 12: Tag

In Manage Tags add, edit, view file count and delete tags.

Figure 13: Tag Editor

Image Info: Image details are available under Image info. Pixit saves the image details as meta-data which will be used to organize and search images.

Click to view image details.

Image can be described in Description which helps to directly export the image to any word document. Click to add description or rename an image and click to save.
URL: For images captured from web, Pixit remembers the URL of capture and saves it, which when clicked directs to web-page.
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 building wireframe.
Histogram: Color tones like Luminosity, Red, Green, Blue along with Dimensions, Pixels and other image color information are obtained here so that user can modify them in Image mode if required.

12. Context Menu Options:

Any image captured or imported to Pixit has following options on right click (Refer: Figure 14).

	Bring Forward	Brings embedded images, annotations on an image forward.
	Send Backward	Sends embedded images, annotations on an image backward.
	Open In	Open the image in MS Paint, MS Picture Manager, System viewers.
	Set as Background	Sets the image that is opened in Pixit as desktop background.
	Copy image to clipboard	Copy and paste the image in another location, works with shortcut (Ctrl+C).
	Copy Canvas to Clipboard	Copies image along with annotations (e.g. Text, Icons) on the canvas to another location.
	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	Burns annotations on image or canvas. Selected Annotation: Burns only selected annotations on canvas. All annotations on the image: Burns all annotations available on image and the burnt annotations now become part of image. All annotations on the canvas: Burns all annotations available on canvas and re-sizes canvas to fit all annotations in it.

Introduction

Home Bar (1)

2.1 Annotation Properties:

4. Status Bar:

5. Tool Bar:

6. Menu bar:

Category:

12. Context Menu Options: