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PicPick – All-in-on Screen Capture Software

Naomi — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:23:32 +0000

PicPick is an all-in-one software for software developers, graphic designers and home user. It includes capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and etc for your image capturing and editing needs. It is an easy to use tool that covers a wide selection of image editing abilities. and it could easily replace a handful of image type applications on your Windows computer.

PicPick features:

Captures
- Auto-scroll, dual monitors and sound effect are supported
- Various output to File, Printer, Office programs, External program
- Sharing to FTP, E-mail, Facebook and Twitter are also supported
- Full Screen (Support for Dual Monitors)
- Active Window
- Window Control (Scroll a page automatically)
- Region, Fixed Region
- FreeHand
- Repeat Last Capture
Image Editor
- It’s very similar to Microsoft Paint, but you can do more.
- It provides an effect like selection opacity, blur, sharpen, brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, flip, rotate and etc.
Color Picker
- various color code type (RGB, HTML, C++, Delphi)
- Photoshop style RGB/HSV conversion is supported
Color Palette
- horizontal and vertical orientation
- various units (Pixels, Inches, Centimeters)
- DPI setting (72, 96, 120, 300)
- colorful gradient skins
Magnifier
- Zoom 2x to 10x option
- Stay on top, smooth display, and sizeable window
Pixel Ruler
Protractor
Crosshair
- For aligning objects in graphics or design applications
- For calculating relative coordinates on screen
Whiteboard
- For giving a presentation or just drawing something on screen

PicPick is a freeware for Windows user only. No installation needed, simply double click to run the software, it sits quietly on your Start bar. To use, simply select one of the tool from the PicPick menu.

Download PicPick

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AdesClrPicker v2.0 – Useful Color Picker Software

km — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:49:56 +0000

AdesClrPicker, a tiny color picker tool you can really use for color code picker process from AdesBlog.com. Previously, the most common ways is using heavy loaded Photoshop to capture color code from the screen. But using Photoshop is totally no practical since the Photoshop software is consuming a lot of computer memory resources. However, The Ades color picker seem like a perfect alternative application because small processing and light weight color picker software to replace Photoshop color code picker on screen.

This color picker software currently can been download for trial version at here. The retail prices for AdesClrPicker is 9.90USD. After the installation, You will notice an AdesClrPicker small icon is shown in the system tray. Then you can start to capture color codes already.

The Capture colors progress on the screen can been done with a single click of the mouse and the output of the color will be either HTML, RGB, C++, Delphi color codes. Meanwhile, There is a Color Library feature allows you to store your colors, change your colors and convert from one color to another. Color Library is useful if you are working on a project that uses specific colors and you have to refer to the color codes often. By right clicking on the program icon you can access the last 10 captured colors, last 10 captured colors can be displayed in a floating menu as well, which is draggable for easy positioning. Floating menu is always visible and stays on top of all the other windows

AdesClrPicker Color Picker features:

Floating Menu Panel
Export Colors as Image (gif, jpg or png)
Change Preview Pane Size & Zoom Level
Hue, Saturation, Brightness sliders for modifying the colors in Color Library
Now it picks colors in HTML, RGB, Delphi, C++, VB codes
Support for ACT and ACO formats for exporting colors to Adobe Photoshop
Automatically add colors from Floating Menu to Color Library
Color Library to store your frequently used colors
Right Click of the mouse will exit the program
Intuitive Tooltips that will show up to help new users in the beginning, this feature can be turned on and off
Easy to use & user friendly
Small in size and loads fast
Just click or use hotkey to capture colors
Outputs in either HTML or RGB color codes
Has option to include or not to include “#” in the HTML codes
Hotkeys can be set for program activation/deactivation, capturing color and displaying floating menu
Can store last 10 captured colors in the memory – this saves time from capturing the same color again
Floating menu displays the last 10 captured colors and stays on top of all other windows
Floating menu is draggable for easy positioning
It also shows the current color and last captured color codes near to your mouse – this makes it easy to check and compare the colors on the fly.
Zoom window makes it easy to select the most detailed colors

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Snipshot – Online Pictures Editor

Naomi — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:31:44 +0000

Snipshot (http://snipshot.com/) previously called Pixoh, is a very-good Ajax-based editing tool that stands out because of its above average design and the fact that they have an API into their service. It’s like PXN8, but more intuitive. Snipshot can edit big pictures up to 10 MB, or 25 megapixels (5000×5000 pixels).Snipshot is very easy to use, just submit a URL, browse your computer or you can simply play with one of their sample images – no login required. You image will be display on screen in edit mode where you can rotate or resize your image. Finally, you can save your image to the desktop in several different formats.

Snipshot allows you to import pictures from Flickr or any website using a bookmarklet. It also allows you to export and save images in a range of formats (JPG, PNG, PDF, TIF, PSD, and BMP). Check out Max Kiesler’s great screencast.

Snipshot features:

Our free API lets you use Snipshot for your own website
No download necessary – 100% browser based, no plug-ins required
One-click import from any web site (including Flickr) with Snipshot bookmarklet
Save to a free permanent URL at WebShots or to your Flickr account
Save as GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG or TIF
One-click enhance improves most images
Basic editing tools like crop, rotate, resize
Basic image adjustments like contrast, brightness, saturation, sharpness and hue
Unlimited undo and redo (Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y, or ?Z and ?Y on your Mac)
Non destructive editing – we always work from the original
Edit big pictures up to 10 MB, or 25 megapixels (5000×5000 pixels)
Import PDF (first page only), EPS or SVG

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ReaWatermark – Image Watermark Tool

Naomi — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 05:43:40 +0000

ReaWatermark is a image watermark tool to create watermarks to multiple files in multiple folders to protect your copyright. With this watermark software, you can apply transparent logo on your images. It supports a mixture of text, copyright symbols, graphics and drawing watermarks of any complexity. The multi-level transparency setting allows you to choose and preview how your watermark image or text will affect the protected image.

Main features of ReaWatermark:

Easy prove your copyright with 100 transparency levels.
One step to process large number of photos of variable size and orientation in multiple folders
Copyright and registered symbols support
Batch converting
Intuitive and easy-to-use interface

Download the ReaWatermark 2 trial version here.

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PhotoS – Convert Photographs into Freehand Drawings

Naomi — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 14:04:57 +0000

PhotoS is a tool to convert photographs into freehand line drawings. It is a handy tool both for artists and those who don’t know how to draw. PhotoS allows you to make a portrait of your friend with a single click. It is easy to use, what you need to do is load a photo, then click on the ‘Draw Sketch’ button, and you drawing is ready.

PhotoS is a shareware, you can download the trial version from: http://www.caricature-software.com/products/photos/download.html

You can also visit the gallery for example drawings.

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Photopolis – Photo Collection Application for Windows XP and Mac OS X

Naomi — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 04:11:06 +0000

Photopolis is a freeware photo collection application for Mac OS X. It is a new way to experience your photo collection. Photopolis extracts the date you took your photo. Then it assembles the photos that were taken in a week as a “house”. Out of 4 houses a months is created and so on. The result is a checker-board arrangement of houses in a city. The straight streets represent years, the cross streets months. Because of this arrangement you can for example view your Christmas photos of all the years by walking along the “December” street.

Photopolis can be downloaded from Photopolis Homepage:
Download for Windows XP,

Download for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

Photopolis is open-source, you can download the source code and continue to develop it.

System requirements for Photopolis is Windows XP and Mac OS X v10.4 or later, Java 1.5 or later, .NET 2.0(for Windows XP only), G3 or faster processor, dedicated graphics card and 100MB of hard disk space for each 1000 photos.

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Wink – Create Highly Compressed Flash Presentations

Naomi — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:46:01 +0000

Wink is a free Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.

Wink is a standard Windows-based UI with drag-and-drop editing makes it very easy to create high quality tutorials/documentation. You can create content viewable across the web in PC installed with Macromedia Flash Player. You can get the Macromedia Flash Player here.

Features of Wink:

Freeware – Distributed as freeware for business or personal use.
Cross-Platform – Available for all flavours of Windows and various versions of Linux (x86 only).
Audio- Record voice as you create the tutorial for explaining better.
Input formats – Capture screenshots from your PC, or use images in BMP/JPG/PNG/TIFF/GIF formats.
Output formats – Macromedia Flash, Standalone EXE, PDF, PostScript, HTML or any of the above image formats. Use Flash/html for the web, EXE for distributing to PC users and PDF for printable manuals.
Multilingual support – Works in English, French, German, Italian, Danish, Spanish, Serbian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified/Traditional Chinese.
Smart Capture Tools – Capture screenshots automatically as you use your PC, based on mouse and keyboard input (great time saver and generates professional captures).
Performance/Quality – Creates highly compressed Flash presentations (few kbs to few hundreds of kbs, much smaller than competing commercial products) ideal for using on the web.

Get the latest Wink form http://www.debugmode.com/wink/download.php.

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Online Image Optimizer – GIF, JPG, and PNG

Naomi — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:23:34 +0000

Online Image Optimizer lets you easily optimize your gifs, animated gifs, jpgs, and pngs, so they load as fast as possible on your site. Furthermore, you can easily convert from one image type to another.

This Online Image Optimizer is very simple to use, just upload your image to the Online Image Optimizer or provide your image URL, then optimize it, the optimizing process took only a few seconds to generate and display the results. Select the image then download it to your computer. It is very useful to shrink the size of images and speed up webpage download times.

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VSO Image Resizer 1.0.7c – Manage your Digital Photos

Naomi — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:44:16 +0000

VSO Image Resizer is a free image resize software organizes your photos by shrinking their resolution or moving them within your hard drive. VSO Image resizer is the perfect tool for those who store their digital pictures and images on their PC and who want to resize, compress, convert, create copies, import or organize photos.

It supports .bmp, .gif, .png, .jpg and .tiff formats and converts it into various and custom resolutions. you can choose the resolution and the quality of the images to determine the desired speed of compression and the amount of space you wish to save. Whether you want to send, move, shrink or enlarge a single picture or a whole batch, Image Resizer will do the job in one click.

Download VSO Image Resizer free from here

Guide on how to resize images

Once installed, VSO Image resizer is automatically integrated into the Windows explorer shell, right click on your pictures and start working on your pictures. Another nice option is when you insert your memory card, Windows will automatically offer you to use Image Resizer.

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