Pixel Snatcher
Snatch pixels from your screen and convert into translucent tool images in PNG, GIF, ICO and TEA image formats with ease. Create modern monochromatic tool images in seconds for your app, web app, or Gossamer app. Click capture, hover mouse cursor over screen area to acquire image, adjust color conversion settings if required, and copy/save.

A transparent image generated from a screen capture
Features
- Generate translucent/transparent images from screen captures (solid image) or paste in an image
- Automatic monochromatic/color conversion, variable background color removal, and smart image cropping
- Color Conversion Modes: Black (shades of black), White (shades of white), B/W (shades of black and white), 1 Color (shades of custom color), 2 Color Mix (shades of two custom colors with Color Mix adjustment), Font Color (shades of current font color), RGBA (original colors)
- Processing Options: Remove Alpha, Pre-Invert, Enhance Range, Boost Detail, Make Alpha, Def. Alpha, and Post-Invert
- Capture image from screen in realtime (2 modes): drag and release (instant), or click and hover (short delay)
- Post-capture adjustment support - click and drag within "Enlarged View" panel area to adjust final capture area and regenerate image
- Custom capture width / height: 5-256px
- Custom minimum image width / height range: 1-256px
- Custom vertical / horizontal transparent padding: 0-30px
- Tweak final vertical / horizontal image position: +/-30px
- Adjust Brightness and Contrast levels
- Twin feather modes: -200..-1: smooth image and feather edges / 1..200: feather edges only / 0: off
- Image Options: Flip, Mirror, and Rotate 0, 90, 180, and 270
- Save image to file as a PNG (32 bit), ICO (32 bit), TEA (32 bit), or GIF (8 bit)
- Copy image to Clipboard as base64 encoded text in mime/type PNG, ICO, or GIF format for pasting directly into html code
- Copy image to Clipboard as a Pascal binary array in PNG, TEA, ICO, or GIF format
- Smart Paste: Accepts a standard image or a Pascal binary array
- Option: Paste 2 - Paste an image from Clipboard, convert, and copy back to Clipboard as a PNG Pascal binary array with one click for rapid source code work
- Options: Fast Capture, Frame Enlarged, and Frame Actual (outline image boundaries)
- 15 persistent work tabs with customisable caption - each work tab retains its own image and settings
- Copy and Paste image and settings between work tabs via internal Clipboard
- Realtime WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) display
- Options Window - Easily change app color, font, and settings
- Portable
- Smart Source Code (Borland Delphi 3 and Lazarus 2.2/4.4/4.6)
App Changes
- Cleaner, higher-quality RGBA option
- Upgraded feather support for full alpha channel edge feathering
- Paste 2 option
- Simplified operation
- Pre and Post processing options
- Size range extended to 256 px
- RLE 6 (4 color shades), RLE 8 (1 color shade), and RLE 32 (RGBA) preview options for codebase reference work
Codebase Changes
- Optimised for 2K display (60fps+)
- Functional on 4K display
- General render improvements of ~300%
- Text render improvements of ~200%
- Smart font character caching with twin feather support
- Increased background animation render rate to 60fps
- Active GUI Scaling (60% - 200% of OS scaling, realtime adaptive)
- TextCore (upgraded) - non-GUI and GUI text box engine (txt, bwd, bwp, rtf)
- FastDraw (new) - GUI / general graphics work via high-level and low-level rapid-render procs for the CPU
- Dynamic scaling and loading of System, Folder, and App images
- New color-based animated background schemes / engine upgrade
- Automatic MSIX handling (MS Store app/MSIX bundle) with seamless adaptive settings and temp file storage and management for restrictive access compliance
- Source code supports both 32bit and 64bit
- 32bit compilation in Borland Delphi 3 (stable)
- 32bit compilation in Lazarus 2.2 (stable)
- 64bit compilation in Lazarus 4.4+ (functional/work in progress)
Information
App Name
Pixel Snatcher
Version
1.0.2287
Type
Desktop App (Standard Edition)
License
MIT
Status
-
Release Date
23rd April 2026
Portable App
Yes
Code Foundation
4th Generation (Gossamer for GUI)
Operating System(s)
Windows All and Wine for Linux and Mac
SHA256 Checksum
for "pixelsnatcher.exe"
73D6487C6B93D7CAFC81F4E9B19A6C705EE0E999930ED67D6C131869B5F62557
Downloads
Images

A transparent image generated from a screen capture

The "Save" icon from MS Paint captured and converted into a translucent monochromatic white toolbar image with horizontal padding

Captured image colored in shades of red with alpha values and horizontal padding

Pixel Snatcher in the "Black and Orange" color scheme - "Options > Color"
Reference
What makes a portable app special?A portable app is a big leap forward for apps in general. A standard or traditionally engineered app requires a lot of support in the form of libraries, data files, images, scripts, etc and the list goes on. You get the picture. Some portable apps out there still include this bundle of bits, they merely offload it into a local folder. A dump of goodies of sorts.
We tend to see a portable app in quite a different light. Our vision of a portable app is designed tight, clean, free of bloat, and all data where possible is included directly within, structured right into the fabric of the app itself, and designed from the bare-metal up if required.
Though the most important difference between a traditional app and a portable app is that a portable app will not install on your computer. This is extremely important as the installation process is often messy, and can clutter up your computer by dumping a lot of stuff all over the Windows file structure and registry, and over time may slow down and decrease the overall performance of your computer.
A portable app will not do this, which keeps your computer clean and running smooth and fast as it should. Unfortunately most software is not designed with portable in mind. They're more akin to a large leaky box of bits than tight engineering. And because a portable app is not installed on your computer, it runs outside the normal scope of the operating system, and is not locked down or tied to it. And thus can be moved about, from disk to disk, or computer to computer.
Typically a portable app will reside on a USB pen stick, removable media, or in a special folder on a portable hard disk. This makes it easy to take from one computer to the next, and use over and over. An immensely valuable freedom, and something an installed app can only dream of.
But a serious technical hurdle must be overcome for a truly portable app to be free. And that is the humble setting. Yes, a portable app must be able to handle it's settings on it's own. It must be able to read them from disk, filter them, check and correct them where required, and write them back to disk. All without the help of the Windows' registry or other operating system dependent structures.
An installed app typically can't or won't do this. Instead, it relies on Windows and the registry to manage it's settings and other important data sets for it. It therefore takes a higher degree of technical competence to escape this "tied to the operating system" situation.
Here is our current standard for a portable app:
- Require no installation or setup
- Require no additional DLL libraries to run and perform it's core function
- Make no alteration to the host operating system, or its settings, files, libraries or core functions, or the Windows registry, unless it forms a part or a whole of the app's core function, and then, only when initiated by the user
- Be able to run "out of the box"
- Require no compiling, conversion, installation or setup of support structures in order to execute, except for when such an environment constitutes an execution enabling environment, such as a command translation service like Wine
- Be free of zipped or otherwise externally bundled blob structures containing folders, files and bits
- Operate on less powerful hardware to facilitate operation on a broad spectrum of computers
- Less demanding API landscape to facilitate execution on a broad range of operating systems and software translation environments
- Require no special software libraries be present in order to run, such as .NET or JAVA, unless typically pre-installed on the target operating system or execution environment
- Not require an internet connection to run, unless the connection is required to fulfill the app's core function, such as a web server
- Require no downloads, addons, or registration in order to run
- Provide help and documentation offline via a built-in viewer, or by limited external means, such as Notepad
- Be self-contained with all necessary files, data sets, and samples stored within it's internal structure, such that access be provided preferably through direct enabling mechanisms
- Store, hold and manage external app settings and user data in a local sub-folder, and that sub-folder be easily identifiable as belonging to the app
- Provide a mostly consistent appearance and experience to the user across the widest possible range of operating systems and execution environments
- Value backwards compatibility, and be able to actively make use of that older hardware and software
- Possess a compact, bloat-free footprint
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