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About CapturePRO

Getting Started

Windows Mobile

Android

BlackBerry

Symbian

Applying filters for special effects

Software registration

Legal notices

About CapturePRO
With CapturePro, In a few easy steps, you can create screen captures of your favorite Mobile Device. While providing powerful options for the more advanced users, CapturePro remains an easy to use tool. With the built-in Wizard you can go through the required configuration process. Just a few clicks, and you are done.

Getting Started
CapturePro is a Desktop PC tool for creating Mobile screen captures. It runs on Microsoft Windows, and it requires a data connection to your Mobile device. Usually this connection is achieved using a Data Cable that comes with your mobile device. Consult your Mobile device manual to learn how to connect it to your Windows Desktop PC.
Starting CapturePRO brings the User Interface. You need to select your Mobile Device platform out of currently 3 platforms available: Windows Mobile, Android or Blackberry. The next CapturePRO upgrade will also enable the forth option: Symbian. To select a platform, click on the corresponding device image:


Fig.1: The CapturePRO user interface
After the platform is selected, CapturePRO tries to connect to your Mobile Device. Make sure you follow the on-screen instructions and connect the Mobile Device to your Desktop PC using the USB Data Cable. Consult your Mobile Device manual for more information on how to connect it to your Windows Desktop PC. The "Please wait" screen in Fig.2 will be shown until the connection is properly established. If the screen doesn't change for a long period, you might need to check your Data Cable and to ensure you've installed the Mobile Device drivers on your Windows Desktop Computer:


Fig.2: Connecting to a Mobile Device
The "Please wait" screen should turn into "Connected" in just a few seconds:

Fig.3: Device successfully connected
Now you are ready to take screen captures, and apply lots of advanced graphical filters, including watermarks, optical flare, texture, blur and many more. The result can be saved in several well known graphical formats Bitmap, JPEG, GIF, TIFF or PNG with variable quality factor.


Fig.4: Screen Capture interface
To start taking screen captures, press the big Top-Right Capture Button. The 6 stages progress indicator at the bottom will turn green during the data exchange. The screen shot appears as a thumbnail. Use the right side arrows to browse through your screen captures or to zoom in or out. Right clicking a thumbnail brings up a context menu with several advanced options:


Fig.5: Click a thumbnail for more options
You can also use double click on the thumbnail to automatically open the screen capture at full size in your favorite image viewer.
The "Project name", set by default to "CapturePRO" is a name identifier for the set of images you're currently capturing. They are stored under the folder indicated by the "Project Path" field. To change the project path and have your images stored to a different location, including network folder, press the button next to "Project path" and browse for a new folder:


Fig.6: Browsing for a new project folder to save the screen captures
The "File format" section and the "Quality" slider allows you to select the graphical format to use when saving the screen captures. If you're new to image editing, it's enough to know that BMP files have the best quality but use more storage space, and that JPG files on the other side offer the compromise between quality and storage space, also adjustable with the "Quality" slider.
The "Text over" is a must have for magazine editors. Doing a large numbers of screen captures for review purposes might also require that a digital watermark is added, to ensure the image copyright. With "Text over" you can add your magazine name over the image automatically and adjust the text color and the transparency, using the "Alpha" slider:

Fig.7: Two different transparency levels on Text Over
To disable the Text over simply clear the Text in the Text Over field.
Press "Open Dir" to open your Project folder and see all the thumbnails in Windows Explorer.
"Back" takes you to the initial interface, and you can select a different Mobile Platform.
The right-bottom "Menu" button opens a new interface page where you can read the Help, see the About information or Register your CapturePRO copy.

Windows Mobile
When first connecting your Windows Mobile Pocket PC or Smartphone to your Windows Desktop PC, you will receive a notification to install the software driver for the new hardware. Before taking screen captures, you need to install ActiveSync (for Windows XP/2000) or Microsoft Device Center (for Vista/Windows 7 or above). To download these programs and learn more about how to connect your Windows Mobile device to your Desktop computer see this Microsoft page.
Warning: before taking screen captures using CapturePRO, install the Sync software or the drivers for your Mobile Device!

Android
When first connecting your Android device to your Windows Desktop PC, a notification informing you that new hardware is detected pops up:


Fig.8: Android device detected, you need to install the driver software
Choose "Install from a list or specific location" and browse to the Android Windows Driver folder. The driver can be downloaded from the Android website.


Fig.9: Installing the Android device driver
Warning: before taking screen captures using CapturePRO, install the Sync software or the drivers for your Mobile Device!

BlackBerry
Blackberry devices when connected to a Windows Desktop PC also require a driver before they can be used with CapturePRO 2.0. So the very first time you connect the Blackberry to your computer via the USB Data cable, you'll get a "new hardware detected" notification:


Fig.10: Blackberry device detected
Before using CapturePRO, you'll need to install the BlackBerry Driver for Windows. You can download it from the BlackBerry Website.


Fig.11: Installing the BlackBerry driver
Warning: before taking screen captures using CapturePRO, install the Sync software or the drivers for your Mobile Device!

Symbian
Sorry, but the current CapturePRO release, doesn't support Symbian OS mobile devices. This will be included in the next Teksoft CapturePRO upgrade.


Applying filters for special effects
CapturePRO 2.0 comes with a large number predefined filters, that can improve the look of your mobile screen captures before publication.
The first option to consider is the "Text Over", that can add a Watermark over each captured image automatically. By doing so you make sure you're on the safe side regarding copyright issues. To use the Text over, add a text in the interface, choose a color and the transparency.

The other filters can be accessed by right clicking the Thumbnail of a previously taken screen capture. After you apply a filter, you can always revert by using the "Undo last" option available in the right click popup too.
Basic GFX includes the first part of the available filters.


Fig.12: The list of available Basic GFX filters
Here is some more info:

Negative converts the image to its negative (inverse colors)

Grayscale converts the image to the grayscale (levels of gray) for a black and white look and feel

Auto color changes the image colors according to the computed white balance

Auto contrast automatically enhances the image contrast

Mosaic changes the image into mosaic where details are lost.

Rotate 90 rotates the image 90 degrees clockwise

Flip flips the image horizontally

Mirror creates a new image that is the horizontal mirror image of the original

Add shadow increases the image to cast a shadow under

Blur blurs the image moderately

Blur More casts a strong blur over the image

Scratch removal moderate blur to cancel small image defects

Zoom blur strong blur that gives a 3D image look

Radial blur strong concentric blur

Sharpen improved the image details

Sharpen more stronger sharpen effect

Advanced GFX brings some interesting image manipulation special effects:


Fig.13: Advanced GFX filters

Add noise the image looks noisy

Oil paint the image is changed so it would look like an oil painting

Emboss each pixel of the image is replaced either by a highlight or a shadow

Splash similar to Oil paint, it creates a "splash" image

Posterize conversion of a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones, with abrupt changes from one tone to another.

Shift creates a horizontal lines distortion for a TV like transmission effect

Stripe circular bending of the image

Whirl a rotating vortex created in the center of the image

Fractal creates a nice fractal effect, strongly distorting the image

Fig.14: The FRACTAL effect

Illusion breaks and blends part of the image for a ghostly effect

Wave fluid wave effect in the center of the image

Fig.15: The WAVE effect

Lens flare a very nice flare effect added to the left corner of the image

Glow adds a powerful flow over the image

Fig.16: The GLOW effect

Overlay grid a smooth grid is added over the image

Software registration
CapturePRO comes as a trial version that can be used to evaluate the product for 16 days. The trial version puts a small text over your screen captures.
To disable this limitation and to use the software for more then 16 days, you need to register your CapturePRO copy.
To register, press the right-bottom "MENU" button and enter your license key:


Fig.17: CapturePRO registration screen
To purchase a license key, click here. The Ownername field must match the text displayed in the CapturePRO window under "Licensee name". After the payment is complete, you'll receive the serial license key by email, so make sure you've entered your email address correctly.

Legal notices
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