New ZoomIt Live Draw Feature Enhanced Presentation

Let’s discuss New ZoomIt Live Draw Feature Enhanced Presentation. Microsoft introduced a new ZoomIt Live Draw Feature to enhance presentations. This feature was introduced as part of the December 16, 2024 update of Sysinternals.

ZoomIt is a popular screen magnification and annotation tool part of ZoomIt v9.0. to ZoomIt, a screen magnification and annotation tool, adds LiveDraw to LiveZoom. It enables ZoomIt drawing and annotation on top of live windows and the desktop.

ZoomIt is widely used for technical presentations and demos, allowing users to zoom in on specific areas of the screen, draw annotations, and even record the screen. You can annotate live during your presentation, making it more interactive and engaging for your audience.

ZoomIt works on all versions of Windows and you can use touch and pen input for ZoomIt drawing on tablets. In this blog post i will help you to know more about New ZoomIt Feature Enhanced Presentation. I will also share example of Live Draw Feature in ZoomIt.

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New ZoomIt Live Draw Feature Enhanced Presentation - Fig.1
New ZoomIt Live Draw Feature Enhanced Presentation – Fig.1

New ZoomIt Live Draw Feature Enhanced Presentation

ZoomIt allows you to draw and annotate directly on your screen in real time, even while zoomed in. ZoomIt stands out for its unique features, making it an essential tool for presentations and demonstrations with features such as screen zooming, Live Drawing, and Timer Function.

New ZoomIt Live Draw Feature Enhanced Presentation - Fig.2 - Creds to MS
New ZoomIt Live Draw Feature Enhanced Presentation – Fig.2 – Creds to MS

Using of ZoomIt

ZoomIt presents a configuration dialogue that describes its behaviour when you run it for the first time. It lets you specify alternate hotkeys for zooming and entering drawing mode without zooming and customize the drawing pen color and size.

It also includes a break timer feature that remains active even when you tab away from the timer window and allows you to return to the timer window by clicking on the ZoomIt tray icon.

New ZoomIt Live Draw Feature Enhanced Presentation - Fig.3 - Creds to MS
New ZoomIt Live Draw Feature Enhanced Presentation – Fig.3 – Creds to MS

ZoomIt Draw Feature

You can now draw with ZoomIt with different types of pens. You can use other tools like lines, arrows, boxes, and text to make your annotations clear and compelling. And different color options are also available for drawing, allowing you to differentiate between various types of annotations.

New ZoomIt Live Draw Feature Enhanced Presentation - Fig.4 - Creds to MS
New ZoomIt Live Draw Feature Enhanced Presentation – Fig.4 – Creds to MS

Shortcut Available on ZoomIt

ZoomIt provides many shortcuts, which greatly extend its usage. As you know, shortcut keys are very helpful when handling tools. The table below shows different shortcut keys.

Zoom Related FunctionsDrawing, Text and Cursor Related FunctionPen Related FunctionsCopy and Save Related FunctionsScreen Recording FunctionsTimer Related FunctionsSnippet Related Functions
Zoom Mode – Ctrl + 1Start Drawing (While In Zoom Mode) – Left-ClickRed Pen – RCopy Screenshot to Clipboard – Ctrl + CStart/Stop Full Screen Recording Saved as MP4 (Windows 10 May 2019 Update And Higher) – Ctrl + 5Show Countdown Timer – Ctrl + 3Move back to the previous snippet (DemoType) – Ctrl + Shift + 7
Zoom In – Mouse Scroll Up or Up ArrowStop Drawing (While In Zoom Mode) – Right-ClickRed Highlight Pen – Shift + R Crop Screenshot to Clipboard – Ctrl + Shift + C
Save Screenshot as PNG – Ctrl + SIncrease/Decrease Time – Ctrl + Mouse Scroll Up/Down or Arrow KeysAdvance to the next snippet (DemoType User-driven Mode) – Space Bar
Zoom Out – Mouse Scroll Down or Down ArrowStart Drawing (While Not In Zoom Mode) – Ctrl + 2Green Pen – GSave Cropped Screenshot to a File – Ctrl + Shift + SMinimize Timer (Without Pausing It) – Alt + Tab
LiveZoom Mode – Ctrl + 4Increase/Decrease Line And Cursor Size (Drawing Mode) – Ctrl + Mouse Scroll Up/Down or Arrow KeysGreen Highlight Pen – Shift + GCopy a Region of The Screen To Clipboard – Ctrl + 6Show Timer When Minimized – Left-Click On The ZoomIt Icon
Start DemoType – Ctrl + 7
Center The Cursor (Drawing Mode) – Space BarBlue Pen – B Save a Region of The Screen To a File – Ctrl + Shift + 6
Exit – Esc or Right-ClickWhiteboard (Drawing Mode) – WBlue Highlight Pen – Shift + BCrop Screen Recording Saved as MP4 (Windows 10 May 2019 Update And Higher) – Ctrl + Shift + 5
Blackboard (Drawing Mode) – KYellow Pen – YScreen Record Only The Window That The Mouse Cursor is Positioned Over Saved as MP4 (Windows 10 May 2019 Update And Higher) – Ctrl + Alt + 5
Type in Text (Right Aligned) – Shift + TYellow Highlight Pen – Shift + Y
Increase/Decrease Font Size (Typing Mode) – Ctrl + Mouse Scroll Up/Down or Arrow KeysOrange Pen – O
Draw a Straight Line – Hold ShiftOrange Highlight Pen – Shift + O
Draw a Rectangle – Hold CtrlPink Pen – P
Draw an Ellipse – Hold TabPink Highlight Pen – Shift + P
Draw an Arrow – Hold Ctrl + Shift

Blur Pen – X
Erase Last Drawing – Ctrl + Z
Erase All Drawings – E
LiveDraw Mode – Ctrl + 4
New ZoomIt Live Draw Feature Enhanced Presentation – Table.1

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ZoomIt v9.0

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Anoop C Nair has been Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for 10 consecutive years! He is a Workplace Solution Architect with more than 22+ years of experience in Workplace technologies. He is also a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group Community leader. His primary focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM and Intune. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security, Career, etc.

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