With this post, I want to summarize the review of the PicPick program, designed to take screenshots from your computer screen. Here are a few recommendations, so to speak, clearly:

1. I found this - the translation has been slightly corrected here. Might be useful

2. The installation of the program and its initial configuration are described in some detail in the video tutorial How to take a screenshot in PicPick -1. Let's see it in pictures here:

Installation

PicPick is installed in just two clicks, but it all depends on which installation package you downloaded. On the developer's website, you can find two links to the most latest version(download links can be found at the end of this post). There is a standard EXE file installations, and ZIP archive, which does not require installation, just unzip the archive to a convenient location and run the program.

At the first start, the settings window will automatically start:

Rice. 1 Installation and initial setup

You can specify the interface language, of course we do " English", tick "Run Program at Startup"(Putting the program in Startup, i.e. PicPick will be automatically loaded along with the system boot, it is convenient and quite reasonable. It is worth noting that the program is not at all demanding on system resources).

The next option is " Check for program updates" (automatic check program updates), set as you wish.

At the same time, you can change the configuration of hotkeys, but I recommend not to do this yet, because. until we click [OK], the interface will remain in English, and we will understand little if English is not our native language. Secondly, all these settings can be done in the future, and, thirdly, the default settings are fully optimal.

On this we will press [OK], that's all: the program is installed and even already running and working. In the tray, next to the clock, we have a new icon

Rice. 2 Tray icon (easel)

3. About working with the program, everything is also downright well, oh-oh-very well told in the video tutorials

But I don't think it would be superfluous to run more.

Working with the program

The program is controlled by hotkeys and by clicking on this icon. So what do we see.

Rice. 3 Main menu of the program

Clicking the right or left mouse button on the program icon opens the main menu, where a huge variety of tools and ways to create screenshots are available to us.

To see what methods of creating snapshots are, you can look into the hotkey settings, where all this is wonderfully described.

Rice. 4 Opening the hotkey settings window

Rice. 5 Hotkey settings window

As you can see, we have the ability to take pictures in many ways, as well as use a number of graphical utilities (tools).

The next thing we may need from the settings is a way to save images. There are also several of them:

Rice. 5 Settings window "What to do with the image? "

Send to PicPick editor - the finished screenshot will be sent to the PicPick image editor, which is included in the package of this program

Copy to clipboard - the screenshot will be placed in the computer's memory, later you can paste it, for example, directly into Word or another (favorite) editor.

Automatic save as... - screenshots will be saved to the folders you specified with specific names (by mask)

And so, let's try to take a picture of an arbitrary area. Of course, you have already seen what it is more than once, and now I'll tell you how it's done using PicPick. Press the CTRL + SHIFT + PrtScn keys at the same time, after which the mouse cursor will turn into + (cross), select an arbitrary section of the screen, describing a circle or another figure, and that's it! After the figure is completed (i.e. a continuous line is formed (circle, square, triangle), the finished screenshot will be saved where it is specified in your settings.

Rice. 6 Snapshot of an arbitrary area

I think that now you should not have questions about how to take screenshots using PicPick. You can try to take pictures of the screen yourself in different modes.

Rice. 8 Fixed area snapshot

And finally, do not forget to look at the mini-utilities included in the program package, such as "Ruler", "Protractor", "Intersection", etc. And other settings - there are not many of them, but they may be useful to you.

I hope you will be able to appreciate this program, both in professional and private use.

Official website of the program http://picpick.wiziple.net/center

Download program: Exe installer http://picpick.wiziple.net/picpick_inst.exe

Taken from the site picpick.softobzor.ru In my opinion, everything is clear ... It remains only to try.

And you can also look at other programs for taking screenshots, if for some reason you are not satisfied with the PicPick program

An excellent screenshoter that allows you to take a screenshot of the screen or any area of ​​it, including scrolling windows, in one click.

ATTENTION! The description below is relevant for an earlier version of the program 3.3.1.

Signs of a good screenshot program

A good screenshot program, in my opinion, should have the following features:

• removing both the entire screen and its parts (active windows, selected areas, window elements, arbitrary selection);
• the presence of a built-in graphic editor with the ability to overlay explanatory elements (leadouts, arrows, highlights, etc.);
• support for both "hot" keys and interface buttons for capturing the screen in one mode or another;
• the ability to directly send a screenshot to the specified email address or to a social network;
• saving in several graphic formats.

These requirements can satisfy even far from all paid programs. “What can we say about the numerous free ones,” you say.

However, I have a serious objection to this in the form of an excellent program that I have been using for more than a year. It's about PicPick.

Comparison with a paid analogue

This program meets all of the above requirements and even more - has a number of very useful additions which can come in very handy!

I'll tell you a secret that before I ran into PicPick, I worked with a well-known paid program SnagIt, that's why I want to compare it with her.

As you can see, there are not so many differences between our two programs, if you do not take into account the fact that PicPick cannot capture video. In other respects, our free screenshot tool is even somewhat ahead of SnagIt in terms of functionality.

Judge for yourself - in addition to capturing images from the screen in various modes, PicPick has the following tools:

• capturing the color under the cursor;
• color palette for selecting the desired shades;
• zoom window, with the possibility of 10x zooming in any area of ​​the screen;
• ruler for measuring any distances on the screen;
• crosshairs for measuring the linear dimensions of rectangular areas;
• goniometer;
• slate board so you can write and draw directly on the screen!

And it's all in one program!

Installing PicPick

PicPick does not have a portable version, so before taking a screenshot of the screen, you will have to install our program.

To do this, we need to download the archive with the installation file, which we need to run. In the window that opens, click the "Next" button, then "I Agree" and stop at the next screen.

Here we are offered to install a browser add-on along with the program. Naturally, hardly anyone needs it, so before clicking "Next", uncheck all three checkboxes. Then we complete the installation as usual.

Primary program settings

After the installation is complete, PicPick will automatically launch the main window and open the "Settings" window on top of it.

Before moving on to direct work with our application, let's go through all the settings, which are located in several tabs.

In the “About” tab (which opens by default), you can set the interface language, as well as activate the creation of a shortcut on the desktop, autoload and check for program updates.

Let's go to the "Capture" tab.

Here we can configure where the resulting screenshot will be sent (by default - to the built-in editor), some capture options and display of the zoom window when capturing.

name mask- template for future names of saved screenshots.

In the "File name" tab, you can set a name mask for saving your captures, as well as set the format of the resulting image by default.

On the "Editor" tab you will find a number of options that will allow you to enter additional settings into the work of the built-in graphic editor PicPick.

The next tab (“Images”) allows you to set the quality of the resulting screenshots.

Accordingly, the “FTP” tab contains all the settings that relate to transferring images to FTP servers.

The last tab we'll look at is "Keys".

With its help, you can set keyboard shortcuts that can call any PicPick function.

How to take a screenshot with PicPick

Now that we have dealt with all the settings, it's time to get down to the actual creation of screenshots. If we close the settings window, then under it we will find the main PicPick window.

If you are accustomed to using various keyboard shortcuts, you can easily disable the display of this window by checking the box "Do not display this window when starting the program" in the lower left corner. If you are not used to "hot keys", then you can safely use this window for your own purposes :).

All functions in the main PicPick window are sorted into two columns: on the left are actions related to images and capturing them, and on the right are additional graphical tools.

To activate any task or tool, just press the button corresponding to it.

By the way, if you have hidden the main window, then you can access all the program control buttons through the PicPick context menu in the tray.

Once you decide on the right option capture, you should press the corresponding button (or "hot" keys on the keyboard), after which in certain modes a frame may appear to determine the area of ​​the image.

If for some reason you change your mind about taking a screenshot, in this mode it is enough to click the RIGHT mouse button. Otherwise, the resulting snapshot will immediately open in the built-in graphics editor.

We can apply a number of effects to the resulting image, add arrows and callouts of various shapes with explanatory text, as well as draw arbitrary shapes, add any text and overlay any parts of images from the clipboard.

Unfortunately, the PicPick graphics editor does not know how to work with layers, but you can still combine two pictures in it :). To do this, as I said, you need to copy the desired fragment to the clipboard in advance, and then simply paste it anywhere in the new screenshot.

From the same menu, you can send the received screenshot to print, put it on the Internet or open it in another program, for example, for additional processing!

Additional PicPick Tools

Now you should not have any problems with capturing images and subsequent processing of screenshots, therefore, to fully familiarize yourself with the program, I propose to study its additional functions.

In the main PicPick window they are named "Graphics Tools" and are grouped in the right column. And the first one is "Color under the cursor".

With it, as the name suggests, we can capture any color on our monitor! When activated this instrument the mouse cursor takes the form of an eyedropper and we have a magnification window that we can use to more accurately determine the desired shade on the screen.

RGB(from English. Red, Green, Blue- red, green, blue) - a color model built on these three primary colors.

Please note that under the zoom window, we determine the current color code in real time in the format specified in the settings (HTML is RGB by default).

After clicking on the desired color, you will see the window of the second tool - "Color Palette".

Here we already see a full range of colors with all sorts of shades, any of which can be selected and copied, for example, into the code of your program or into the palette of a graphic editor. And here you can already change both the display modes of colors and their encoding!

If you don't need the ability to capture color, but just want to get a closer look at some small details on the monitor screen, then the Zoom Window tool may come in handy.

It allows you to quickly increase desired area under the mouse cursor up to 10 times the size, which is one order of magnitude larger than the built-in Windows Magnifier.

The following three tools can be very useful for web developers as they help to make various linear measurements of any objects on the screen. And the first function here is the "Ruler".

It allows you to measure the width and height of any elements displayed on the monitor. Measuring with it is as simple as with a regular ruler - just set the beginning of the floating window "Rulers" to the beginning of the object being measured, and then move the cursor to the opposite edge of the element of interest.

The figure we are looking for will be displayed in the zoom window. For example, in the screenshot above, we found out that the width of the "+1" button in Google search engine equals the 31st pixel :).

You can customize the ruler using the context menu, which allows you to position the tool vertically or horizontally, change the units of measurement (pixels by default), transparency and its color.

The next tool is the Protractor.

It is even easier to use than the Line. The result is achieved in three clicks:

1. First, we fix the point at which the measured angle is located.
2. Second - fix the first adjacent vector that forms the angle.
3. Third - we indicate the second segment, after which we get the value of the angle in degrees accurate to minutes!

The last measuring tool is the "Crosshair".

This tool is similar in its functionality to the "Ruler", but, unlike it, it allows you to simultaneously measure the width and height of any object on the screen, though only in pixels.

To start measuring, you need to left-click on the "zero" point of the measurement, and then use the crosshairs that appear and the magnification window to adjust the end point. Under the crosshairs, the width and height dimensions in pixels will be displayed.

PicPick's last optional tool is the "Slate Board".

With it, we have the opportunity to draw directly on the screen. This feature can be useful for people who often give presentations or record video tutorials, as it allows you to focus the viewer's attention on specific objects.

When activating the "Slate Board", a small toolbar appears on the screen, on which are available:

1. Move - a tool for navigating the enlarged space of the "board";
2. Increase - no comments:);
3. Pencil - allows you to draw arbitrary lines "by hand";
4. Arrow - draws arrows according to your chosen template;
5. Shape - allows you to draw rectangles, rounded rectangles, and ellipses.

In addition to everything listed on the panel, there is a slider for controlling the transparency of the drawn parts, buttons for clearing and capturing the screen, as well as a scale for the size of the drawn elements and a color palette.

To exit the slate mode, it is enough, as in all previous cases, to click the RIGHT BUTTON of the MOUSE on free space or click the "Close" button on the toolbar.

Advantages and disadvantages of the program

• full range of screen capture capabilities;
• support for customizable hotkeys;
• built-in additional tools;
• availability of functions for quickly sending received screenshots to the Internet;
• good built-in graphics editor.

• the program is "for non-commercial use only" though... :);
• no video capture function;
• restrictions when enlarging screenshots in a graphics editor (up to 1000%);
• there is no function to adjust the color tolerance when using a fill.

conclusions

In fact, PicPick is no worse than paid analogues like the same SnagIt or the "snickering" FastStone Screen Capture :). And with developer-friendly tools, it might even get better!

In any case, with the help of this program you can not only take a screenshot of any degree of complexity, but also process it professionally. Naturally, like any other application, PicPick is not without some flaws and shortcomings.

However, given the fact of frequent updates, it is safe to say that the number of bugs will decrease from release to release. Or maybe new functions will appear (for example, video capture) ... Then there will be beauty in general :)

Afterword

Often, when working at a computer, we perform certain actions "on the machine", taking them for granted. However, for the uninitiated, they may not be so obvious.

If you want to teach something new to your colleague or acquaintance who are next to you, then the easiest way is to turn on the computer and directly show how this and that is done.

However, what if your "student" is far from you, and the usual telephone consultation does not bring the desired effect? There are two options for solving the problem here.

Screenshot (snapshot, photograph) of the screen is a very useful feature that allows you to quickly take a picture of the monitor screen and save the image.

The easiest option- use key PrintScreen on keyboard. In this case, the entire screen of your monitor will be visible in the picture. When you press PrintScreen, your desktop image will be copied to the clipboard, which can be pasted into any graphics editor (as if you just copied the picture). We did not bother much and inserted the image obtained using PrintScreen into Paint. (Fig. 1).

It is also possible to take pictures active window only. In this case, a screenshot of the window of the program that is in this moment used. To do this, press the key combination Alt+PrintScreen. Since now we have an active MS application Office Word, then when you press Alt + PrintScreen, only the Word photo will appear in the clipboard (Fig. 2).

But often the possibilities of the PrintScreen and Alt + PrintScreen keys are not enough to make the necessary screenshot. For example, if you want to cut out part of an image and only photograph that part. Or if the image area does not fit on the screen. In this case, you will have to use special programs to work with screenshots. There are many such programs on the Internet. In this article, we will talk about one of them - PicPick.

PicPick free program for home use.

Program download

You can download it from the official website at this link.

Program installation

Although the installation of PicPick takes place on English language, it's not hard to figure it out. Follow the installation wizard instructions. In general, as usual, nothing difficult. During the installation process, you will be prompted to install Yandex.Bar, make Yandex start page browser and make Yandex the default search (Fig. 4). Check the boxes for the options you want and click Next, after which the normal installation process will continue.

Working with the program

Immediately after launching PicPick, we are greeted by the help window of the program (Fig. 5).

On the left is the main menu of the program. Look at the items in it. You will easily figure out what's what.

By clicking on this image, we will open the PicPick work panel (Fig. 7).

Because The main task of the PicPick program is to take high-quality screenshots of the screen, and we will dwell on this function in detail.

A tool for creating screenshots Screen capture. When you click on it, a list of available options appears (Fig. 8).

You can immediately determine what actions to perform with the received screenshot ( Received snapshot), and select the screenshot format ( Default Image Format).

For example, PicPick has a very useful screen capture feature − Scroll window. In this case, on the screenshot you will get the whole size of the image, and not just the part that is visible on the screen.

Let's say we have a large drawing or a website page that doesn't fit completely on the small screen of a netbook. Of course, you can take several screenshots, and then glue them into one, but this is very inconvenient. It is much easier to use the Scrolling Window feature. So, we want to get a screenshot of the whole page of the site. The whole page does not fit on the monitor screen (you have to scroll), so to create a screenshot, we will use the PicPick program and select the Window with scrolling function in the menu.

After that, you will need to select the area (it is highlighted with a colored frame) and click left button mouse, PicPick will automatically start scrolling the screen. The resulting screenshot, as usual, will appear in the clipboard. We just pasted it into Paint. The result in fig. nine.

PicPick also has quite interesting features: Selected area,fixed area And Custom area. As the names suggest, using one of these functions, you can take exactly the screenshot that you need.

PicPick is a simple and feature rich screenshot application developed by Wiziple. The program combines a very convenient utility for taking snapshots of the current state of the computer monitor, as well as a program for editing these snapshots. The photo editor, although it has a limited set of tools, nevertheless, is not without basic functions. From useful services there is a ruler, magnifier, slate, goniometer, color recognition.

You will need a ruler to accurately determine the distances in the figure. Sometimes it is quite rich in details and it is important to make accurate calculations. If the objects in the picture are too small, you can easily magnify them using the Magnifier. The slate board is intended for drawing inscriptions over the picture. Sometimes you also need to accurately determine the slope of some lines in the figure. To do this, the user must select a goniometer. When the picture has a very rich color gamut, the color recognition function becomes especially important. The color palette in the program is very saturated, so to edit the image, you must clearly follow the color match.

Thus, PicPick download means to acquire two important functions in one program at once.

You should not be afraid that pictures taken with this program will not open in other applications. On the contrary, in terms of formats, this is one of the most versatile programs. The pictures you take can be saved in JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG formats. They open without problems in any other program and even more. They can be easily and quickly forwarded to an FTP server, e-mail and post on Facebook and Twitter.

It will be easier for you if you decide to download PicPick in Russian. Therefore, always pay attention to the language in which you download the program. So it will be much easier to learn how to use the utility, and you will immediately like it.

If we move on to a more substantive conversation, it should be noted that PicPick has the ability to take pictures of both the entire computer screen and certain elements: only active window, control panel, button, as well as a selected area (both a fixed area and an arbitrary one).

In a graphics editor, which is this program, a very important point is the ability to cancel previous action. This will protect against unnecessary, accidental changes.

It is important that the resulting images can be easily exported to office Word applications, Excel, PowerPoint. They can also be uploaded to an FTP server, sent by e-mail or posted on your personal page on web resources such as Facebook and Twitter.

The PicPick application is very similar in functionality to another useful utility, but is simpler and more convenient to use. The program interface has.

Hello, today I will tell you about the screenshot program and, in combination, a graphic editor PicPick. This is a free program.

I've been using it for several years, it replaces me photoshop in such simple tasks as: resize, crop, add text, etc.

4. Brightness/Contrast

Of course, to do color correction it is more logical to use photoshop, but sometimes no special changes are required - just a little brighter. Then you can bypass the functions PicPick- in section Image - Effects - Brightness/Contrast... (for example, with a photo from a review about Miracle Yogurt):

5. Photo frame

Sometimes you want to make some kind of frame for a photo - in PicPick there are several: for example, a notepad. frames are in the section Image - Effects - Frame ...

6. Crop photo

To cut out part of the photo you need to go to , select the desired area, the program will open a new menu section and there you need to select pruning (for example, a photo from a review about hazelnut oil)

7. Reduce photo

To reduce the photo you need to go to the section Image - Size - Resize Image:

8. Easy copying of the edited picture in Word.

This is very convenient, since you don’t even have to save the photo, I took a screenshot and immediately added text, and with one click you copy: section Clipboard - Copy..

and in Word just press Ctrl V and the picture is inserted:

When you need to cut and paste a lot of pictures, it saves a lot of time. Pictures in the document Word are saved even without saving the original picture in PicPick, but PicPick also supports opening at the same time a large number pictures, screenshots.

9. Hide face in photo, etc.

I personally do not hide my face in the photo for reviews, but it may be useful to someone. Must be selected under Tools - Area - Rectangular Selection... , select the area to be hidden:

In the new menu Options - Pixelate...

Well, the face is not visible :)

Can squeal room bank card, name on the sea ticket, price on the box, data in the passport, etc.

10. Saving in various formats

Transparency PicPick does not support so save to PNG or gif doesn't make much sense. I always save JPG: