PicPick; 'swiss army knife' for graphic designer

this tool is a must if you do any graphic work.

portable version available @ porteableapps.com
http://portableapps.com/news/2012-09-07--picpick-portable-3.1.7-released


* Screen Capture - Take screenshots of the entire screen, an active window, specific region of the screen, free hand, scrolling window and more. Auto-scroll, dual monitors and sound effect are supported.
* Image Editor - Intuitive User Interface (Windows 7 Ribbon style). Standard drawing, shapes, arrows, lines, text, and etc. Effects are supported as well. Blur, sharpen, hue, contrast, brightness, color balance, pixelate, rotate, flip, frame effect and more.
* Color Picker and Color Palette - Various color code type (RGB, HTML, C++, Delphi). Photoshop style RGB/HSV conversion is supported. Pick and Save your favorite color!
* Screen Pixel Ruler - horizontal and vertical orientation. various units (Pixels, Inches, Centimeters). DPI setting (72, 96, 120, 300).
* Screen Magnifier - Zoom 2x to 10x option. Stay on top, smooth display, and sizeable window
* Screen Protractor - Helps you find angles on screen. Pick a center, then a location, then the angle in degrees away from the first. Can be used in a variety of photography, math, and graphics applications.
* Screen 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

 

Please...not you too!
Already portable
http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1496

btw, you gave a link to PA but not to the original site of the app

 

there's a reason for that.

in the past they had it bundled with adware stuff.
i don't know if they still do, but a cat scolded by hot water won't like cold water either.

 

So no ads in the version from PortableApps??

 

none.

i actually paid for the product but it won't take my license anymore for some reason.lol

doesn't matter to me because the paid product is the same, but for commercial use.

 

i just went to their website and here's what it says about the commercial version:
"We guarantee that this commercial version of PicPick is 100% CLEAN, which means it does not contain any advertisement or thirdparty softwares."

better use the version from portableapps.com. lol

 

Just gave the PortableApps version a quick test. Overall, quite nice. Tried to crop a full page scrolling screen capture on XP and had some error messages. Reduced the zoom by 1 % and tried again with no issues.

I own the latest paid FastStone Capture and IMO, it's smoother for captures and edits. But for personal use, PicPick can't be beat for the price. Free beats $19.95 any day!

 

i also have a paid copy of Fast Stone Capture but the things i use PicPick for are especially the Pixel Ruler, the Protractor (for measuring angles) and the Crosshair (for measuring the distance in pixels between 2 points)

beside Picpick, the only good measuring tools are paid ones.

 

tnx JR!

just got it.

 

When you use PicPick for rolling screen captures, how do you separate a lengthy capture into a multi-page doc for printing? I tried to figure it out and couldn't...

 

you can't.
this isn't Adobe InDesign.

but you can select an area, right-click ans choose "Save Selection As" and save each chunks separately.

 

Thanks for the reply! Too bad it can't do that.
(It is something FastStone Capture can do and I use rolling captures quite a bit. Thus the reason I asked...)

 

well, like i said, i only use PicPick for the measuring tools.
the only thing i have seen that is as good as PicPick for those tasks is Screen Callipers, but it's worth 30$.

if people have no need for those then there are better app than PicPick for screen captures.
my needs are little when it comes to this so i use the built-in Snipping Tool in Windows 7.