PokIt

PokIt is a lightweight Windows application built specifically for helping you take screenshots and apply a wide range of editing operations.

Straightforward layout

The program runs quietly in your system tray until called upon when it reveals several dedicated parameters to tinker with. The configuration panel is simple and allows you to open the screenshot in your web browser for proceeding with the editing process.

General settings

PokIt gives you the possibility to assign a hotkey for capturing the screen, select the output format (PNG, GIF, JPEG, or BMP file format), and open the image in your web browser or copy it to the clipboard for pasting it into other third-party tools.
Additionally, you may activate the automatic saving mode for making the application save the taken photos in a user-defined folder.

Editing operations

The utility comes packed with several editing parameters designed to help you pick the image and canvas size, crop, flip, and rotate the picture to different angles, work with multiple layers, which can be duplicated, deleted, or merged, undo or redo your actions, as well as carry out basic editing operations, such as cut, copy, or paste.
What’s more, you can apply several adjustments related to brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, color balance, color vibrancy, RGB, and exposure. There are also several special effects bundled in this tool, such as invert, sepia, solarize, desaturate, old photo, and others.
Last but not least, you can tweak a wide range of filters, such as blur, denoise, sharpen, pixelate, vignette, pastels, emboss, engrave, and others, zoom in or out, switch to a full screen mode, use hotkeys, open an image from the computer (e.g. JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PSD), as well as print, save the file, or upload it on Facebook, Flickr, or Picasa.

A rich-featured set of brushes, borders, and stickers

The program lets you enhance the quality of your pictures by editing them with the aid of different brushes which help you acquire the desired effect.
You can also fix problems related to the red eye display, apply a wide range of special effects (subtle, unicolor, vintage), insert borders and stickers, and embed customized text messages (e.g. grunge, novelty, handwritten, retro). PokIt enables you to perform searches on Google after you take a screenshot, print the photos, as well as select the desired area of the desktop that you want to capture.

An overall powerful tool

All in all, PokIt proves to be a reliable application that comes bundled with a complete suite of parameters for helping you take screenshots and apply a wide range of editing operations. The intuitive layout makes it an ideal tool for rookies and professionals alike.