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Started 2 years ago by Lee
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Lee

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Probably the best freeware you will get this year.

PicPick is an all-in-one software for software developers, graphic designers and home user. It has an intuitive interface and simple, elegant operation. After starting the software, you simply select one of the tool from the PicPick Tools trayicon menu when you want. It features a powerful capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and etc. You can use all these tools freely. PicPick is provided as a single file, so you don´t need any installation. And, this is distributed as Freeware. So you may use this software on any number of computers for as long as you like.

Features:

* Captures
o Full Screen (Support for Dual Monitors)
o Active Window
o Window Control
o Region, Fixed Region
o FreeHand
o Webpages (Scroll the page automatically)
o Repeat Last Capture
* Image Editor
o It´s very similar to Microsoft Paint, but you can do more.
o It provides an effect like selection opacity, blur, sharpen, brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, flip, rotate and etc.
* Color Picker
* Color Palette
* Pixel Ruler
* Screen Protractor
* Crosshair
* Screen Whiteboard

You can download it from this forum: http://picpick.wiziple.net/forum/

Or directly from here: http://picpick.wiziple.net/picpick.exe

It does beg for internet access, just block it and it still works o.k.

Posted 2 years ago #
BuBBy

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Downloading a program from a blind link in a forum that has 12 posts and 3 users - and the home page http://wiziple.net/tt/145 which is not in English makes it hard for me to even give picpick a fair go. (Hey don't blame me - if I seem picky).

I'm sorry Lee, but my vote for best freeware in this category must go to the FastStone graphics utilities.

Oh and the FastStone programs come with exe installers, or portable versions (suitable for a USB Key). And a well written tutorial. And no mysterious, unexplained internet connections calling home. And... just go have a look at it. :)

For most operations I can ditch PaintShop Pro and Photoshop - the FastStone programs are small, quick, stable and very capable.

FastStone Image Viewer for Windows (Currently version 3.0)
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG).

FastStone Capture (Currently Version 5.3)
http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm

FastStone Capture is a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages. It has innovative features such as a floating Capture Panel, hotkeys, resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing, e-mailing, screen magnifier and many more.

Downloads:
http://www.faststone.org/download.htm

Posted 2 years ago #
BillW50

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Hi BuBBy! I love FastStone Capture and I have told many of my friends about it. I haven't used FastStone Image Viewer much, because it crashes when I browse folders. Maybe I will play with it again. As I don't think I rebooted after I installed it. Maybe it will work now since I have rebooted since then. ;)

Posted 2 years ago #
BuBBy

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Yeah I had some problems with the skins (which I have changed back to "Windows Classic") and I also had problems resulting in Dr Watson making frequent after-hours house calls. Once the final non-beta version 3 was released - it's health has improved 100%

Posted 2 years ago #
Lee

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I thought you were smart BuBBY, as you would have realised the link I gave was to satisy English language speakers, which the majority of this website is.

The software comes in two languages, English and Korean, Korean being the coders language.

You can visit the Korean website and count how many users that are there.

http://wiziple.net/tt/145

Posted 2 years ago #
BuBBy

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Maybe I got it wrong.

http://picpick.wiziple.net/forum/

Is an un-customised default install of a forum with 3 registered users and 12 posts (5 made yesterday, and 6 asking why the internet callback - which to his credit, the author is removing because he didn't realise it would be a "big deal").

So I looked at that and thought... hmmm this looks like it was put together a week ago, and isn't "serious". Sure the program might be really good - but presentation and first impressions count for a lot with me.

Yes I found "the post" which details the features (in English) at http://picpick.wiziple.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3

I am not saying that I think picpick is a bad program (it is running in my system tray at the moment) - and I am not levelling any personal criticism at yourself. Lee, I am simply highlighting an alternative that I believe some people might find to be "more friendly" and with more complete English support and written tutorial documents offer a helping hand for people who perhaps haven't used screen capture or image editing software before.

I'm just happy to offer people another choice. Honestly, I don't get into the fanboy religious wars with software, because I really don't give a damn what others choose to run on their computer - that's their problem. :)

Posted 2 years ago #
JEG88

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I just started using FastStone Capture a few wks now. I really like it. One thing I need help w/ though. Sometimes I want to capture text when its not possible to do it by normal means -by highlightn it.-Like when u get an error message & u want to save it for future reference, but u cant highlight it, so I 'Print Screen'.-But that makes a pic
which u can crop but can't grab or highlight the Text. -At least I haven't figured out how it is possible. I tried opening it w/ wordpad but u cant grab the text there either. ~~~Does anyone know how to do this ?? -I'd appreciate the help,-THANKS!~~

Posted 2 years ago #
BuBBy

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JEG88. You can just copy the text of a standard dialog to the clipboard - just how you expect it should work, but probably never tried - because you thought - "Naah, that wouldn't work". Well it does.

Give the dialog the focus and hit ctrl-c. The contents of the error message should be in the clipboard and can be pasted into notepad or anywhere supporting plain text input.

An Example of this:

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Open File
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blah.fds
File not found.
Please verify the correct file name was given.
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OK
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Posted 2 years ago #
BuBBy

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picpick 1.7.0.1 has been released. The developer says:

"I uploaded v1.7.0.1 now.
Please check your version right now smile
It chagned the problem that connect to the internet without asking the user."

Posted 2 years ago #
Lee

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Yes I noticed it wanted net access, not a problem I blocked it.

So we have a new version to correct it?

Excellent.

Posted 2 years ago #
Bluesky

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How to copy/capture error message info - special thanks

I specifically joined this forum so I thank JEG88 for having the presence of mind to ask the question re CAPTURING ERROR MESSAGE DIALOGUE BOXES and the generous, informative BuBBy for providing such a nifty, easy answer utilising the clipboard. I have wanted to know how to do this for simply … forever!

For those who did not see the post, BuBBy’s answer was

“just copy the text of a standard dialog to the clipboard - just how you expect it should work, but probably never tried - because you thought - "Naah, that wouldn't work". Well it does.
Give the dialog the focus and hit ctrl-c. The contents of the error message should be in the clipboard and can be pasted into notepad or anywhere supporting plain text input.
An Example of this:
---------------------------
Open File
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blah.fds
File not found.
Please verify the correct file name was given.”

Posted 2 years ago #
Lee

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You wish to capture error message boxes?

Well when they appear hit PrtScn key just above insert to the right on most keyboards, then open paint or the utility I gave you as soon as you hit PrtScn button copies it to a viewr, in paint, click edit, paste.

Posted 2 years ago #
JEG88

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OMG!! It FREGIN WORKED!!
LOOK! .....LOOK what I did!

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Error
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C:\Documents and Settings\JEG88\Desktop\Ahagame\_user1.cab
The archive is either in unknown format or damaged
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OK
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~~{I'm SO THRILLED I just had to show somebody!}~

That's Brilliant! Thanks BuBBy!!
I, like BlueSky, have wanted to know that FOREVER!-[its been driving me NUTS!!]
-[good to see we helped u BlueSky!]-
This will help me so much,...--what a releif! :D Thxs-Again!!

Posted 2 years ago #
BuBBy

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Don't sound so suprised - You want stuff to go to the clipboard - Ctrl-C works everywhere else - why not here (ok - ignore the bit about highlighting text first).

Well that's my good deed for the day.

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