KolourPaint
A free, easy-to-use, and lightweight raster image editor for quick adjustments and creative drawing.
The Ultimate All-in-One Screen Capture and Graphic Design Toolkit for Professionals.
PicPick is an exhaustive, lightweight graphic design and screen capture suite tailored for the Windows ecosystem. As of 2026, it remains a dominant choice for technical writers, software engineers, and UI/UX designers who require high-precision tools without the overhead of heavy SaaS platforms. Its technical architecture is built for speed, residing in the system tray with minimal RAM consumption while providing a suite of advanced features including a multi-tabbed image editor, color picker, pixel-ruler, and crosshair. Unlike standard OS clipping tools, PicPick offers a robust graphic design environment that supports layers, opacity, and advanced vector-style annotation. It integrates seamlessly with modern cloud stacks like Google Drive, Dropbox, and Slack, facilitating rapid knowledge sharing and documentation. The 2026 market position of PicPick is defined by its hybrid utility: it serves as both a capture engine and a measurement lab, making it indispensable for front-end developers performing visual audits or technical educators creating interactive whiteboard content. Its perpetual licensing model for Professional users continues to provide significant ROI compared to subscription-heavy competitors.
Uses a proprietary auto-scroll algorithm to capture entire web pages or long documents as a single image file.
A free, easy-to-use, and lightweight raster image editor for quick adjustments and creative drawing.
The professional, open-source vector graphics editor for limitless creative freedom.
The professional-grade creative suite for high-fidelity generative image design using Stable Diffusion.
Realistic procedural graphic effects for high-precision design workflows.
Verified feedback from the global deployment network.
Post queries, share implementation strategies, and help other users.
An on-screen overlay that measures distance in pixels, inches, or centimeters across any application.
Extracts hex, RGB, and C++ color codes from any screen pixel and manages color history.
Transforms the desktop into a drawing canvas for real-time presentations and annotations during screen sharing.
Applies drop shadows, frames, watermarks, and mosaic/blur effects directly within the capture workflow.
Provides relative and absolute coordinates (X, Y) for aligning UI elements precisely.
Automated pipeline for uploading captures to FTP servers or cloud providers like Google Drive.
QA teams need to provide visual evidence of software bugs with specific annotations.
Registry Updated:2/7/2026
Technical writers need consistent screenshots for user documentation.
Designers need to verify if the implemented web page matches the design file dimensions.