How do people write on their pictures?

Paul Chapman · 8 Feb 2007

I've been impressed with the way some people write and draw arrows on their pictures when posting them - it helps to make the illustrations so much clearer. I've been experimenting

I have Microsoft Visio on my computer - it's a programme for process mapping which I used to do a lot of when I was working. I copied one of my pictures into Visio, added a text box and arrow then just saved it as a jpeg file (whatever that is :lol: ). Here's the result (excuse the wonky arrow - must try harder :lol: )

How do others do it?

Cheers :wink:

Paul

Steve Maskery · 8 Feb 2007

I use Paint Shop Pro, although I rarely annotate photos directly - I supply my captions in a table with the JPGs. I do, however, touch up photos regularly, removing blemishes, changing exposures and even extending the field of view by copying pripheral areas and pasting them to make the image bigger.

You can do almost anything with it.

Alf · 8 Feb 2007

Gimpshop - free and available on Windoze as well as Mac I believe. Almost too many options though, if you're easily daunted. Does a cracking job of cleaning up scans though.

Cheers, Alf

Gill · 8 Feb 2007

With the recent snowfall, I feared this thread was going to take a decidedly vulgar turn

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Gill

woodbloke · 8 Feb 2007

Alf - interesting, have got Gimpshop on Favourites now and will have a dabble later on, going out this afternoon...not sure if I'll be able to sort it out, being a bit of a 'puterklutz, but will have a play, any pointers as to what to do? - Rob

Alf · 8 Feb 2007

Erm, "don't panic" would probably be the best advice. :lol: The useful stuff is largely in the "Image" menu - cropping, image size, brightness/ contrast and so forth. Most other stuff it's just a case of having a play around and seeing what they do. Can't only say I know what three-quarters of them do myself, but I know just enough to be dangerous. :lol:

Cheers, Alf