PicPick – Screen Capture, Draw, Color Picker and More – All in One Program
Posted by: Barry Cleave in Portable Freeware, tags: Drawing, Freeware, Graphics, Independent Review, PenDrive, Portable Freeware, Portable Freeware Portable Application, PortableApps, Pro Reviewer, Programs, Screen Capture, Windows, WIndows Vista, Windows XP
What’s This About?
PicPick is a portable freeware screen capture program and a drawing program combined with some other useful drawing tools including a screen ruler, color picker on screen drawing and screen protractor. The capture and drawing utilities are very much like Faststone Capture which is no longer freeware.
I first saw this on winAddons.com a couple of days ago, since when it has “been doing the rounds” on many of the tech blogs. So read on if you are interested in some more detail and screenshots on the full potential of this great little portable program. The version reviewed here is PicPick 1.8
Why Would You Want It?
PicPick provides several tools in one small portable package, all integrated into a single main Manager window(GUI) and also accessible from the system tray menu.
The main functions can all be used independently of each other so you could still use it as a drawing and picture or photo annotation tool even if you don’t need screen capture. Of course you might just want it as a free, portable and very versatile screen capture tool. The fact that extra tools are included is a real bonus 
What Does It Do – The Essentials?
Summary:
- Captures Screen
- Full Screen
- Active Window
- Window Control
- Region
- Fixed Region
- Freehand
- Repeat Last Capture
- Autoscroll (for pages longer than the on screen window)
- Drawing Program/Image Editor with
- Standard shapes, arrows, lines, etc.
- Blur, opacity, hue, contrast, brightness, pixelate, etc.
- Rotate, Flip, etc. (Whole or selected part of picture)
- On Screen Drawing Tools (Whiteboard)
- Color Picker
- Color Palette
- Screen Crosshair
- Screen Protractor
Pros: What’s Good?
Features & Benefits
- Freeware
- Portable
- Very Versatile
- Good GUI
- Good Systray Menu Access to Functions
- Easy to Use
- Intuitive
Cons:What’s Not So Good?
- Very Little Help
- Autoscrolling Capture Rather Limited
There are quite a few things that would make PicPick better which are listed at the end of this post. I hope the developer continues the excellent work so far
More About What it Does in Detail:
Go to Page 2 for details and screenshots
Go to Page 3 for ProReviewer Summary
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October 22nd, 2008 at 2:59 am - Edit
wow, pretty impressive with a lot of functionality. it’s time to get rid of ms paint
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October 26th, 2008 at 6:53 am - Edit
Perfect, I so needed this for screenshots of web pages for blog posts and such, hope this works better than copy and paste into paint, where it cutts off a lot of the page.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:17 pm - Edit
it’s time to get rid of ms paint
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January 19th, 2009 at 3:46 pm - Edit
very interesting freeware that can be use for screen capture and doing some editing of it all in one program. it’s easy to use and helpful.
March 10th, 2009 at 10:00 pm - Edit
Nice tool – like the fact it’s portable
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March 15th, 2009 at 4:00 pm - Edit
Nice tool. I use color picker a lot and this tool replaces it perfectly with a lot more features. – Brad.
April 21st, 2009 at 12:16 pm - Edit
Great program – so much easier than the screen capture program I was using previously!
Thanks for tip
October 7th, 2009 at 6:58 am - Edit
Thanks..very helpful..
January 23rd, 2010 at 5:43 pm - Edit
Ok! Is a good tool indeed. Thanks
January 29th, 2010 at 9:47 am - Edit
I love drawing, these GUI tools picpick tools is great