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On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:57:33 +0100 bugbear wrote:
Interesting point, especially when it comes to freeware.
Since you’re experienced with freeware, you’re aware that the goal is to have as few programs as possible that get the job done.
The main job for screenshot editors, is, basically, the following
[ ] Crop (preferably with an option for standard aspect ratios such as 4:3)
[ ] Read & convert to/from desired formats (certainly jpg, gif, & png)
[ ] Cut & paste & move objects on the screen (layers & transparency are helpful)
[ ] Annotate text (with standard font, color, & transparency options)
[ ] Circle objects (again, with standard color, thickness, & shape options)
[ ] Point to objects (this is the hardest of all features to find in freeware)
Since most image editors handle most of those tasks, my point is contrary to yours, in that I feel image editors can certainly perform screenshot annotations.
However, the hardest feature to find in freeware image editors is the "arrowing" feature. In fact, on Linux, I still have never found an image editor that handles arrows anywhere near as well as Paint.NET does on Windows.
And, on Windows, no other image editor handles arrows as well as Paint.NET does. Why not? I’m not sure – but kudos to whomever it is that wrote Paint.NET as only they understood arrows.
I’m told, from the professional folks on a.g.p that Photoshop and Elements handle arrows well, so, again, we have the case that image editors can certainly perform screenshot annotation tasks.
I will take a look at the screenshot annotators for Linux, but, from a quick scan, most seem to concentrate on the image-capture task, which is so trivial to accomplish at a single keyclick on all operating systems that I have to wonder why they promote the capture task so much. But I’ll take a look & report back, just in case there’s a good one out there on Linux just waiting to be discovered.
Try googling screenshot annotation
if that’s what you want, rather than "proving" that image editors aren’t screenshot annotators.
Interesting point, especially when it comes to freeware.
Since you’re experienced with freeware, you’re aware that the goal is to have as few programs as possible that get the job done.
The main job for screenshot editors, is, basically, the following
[ ] Crop (preferably with an option for standard aspect ratios such as 4:3)
[ ] Read & convert to/from desired formats (certainly jpg, gif, & png)
[ ] Cut & paste & move objects on the screen (layers & transparency are helpful)
[ ] Annotate text (with standard font, color, & transparency options)
[ ] Circle objects (again, with standard color, thickness, & shape options)
[ ] Point to objects (this is the hardest of all features to find in freeware)
Since most image editors handle most of those tasks, my point is contrary to yours, in that I feel image editors can certainly perform screenshot annotations.
However, the hardest feature to find in freeware image editors is the "arrowing" feature. In fact, on Linux, I still have never found an image editor that handles arrows anywhere near as well as Paint.NET does on Windows.
And, on Windows, no other image editor handles arrows as well as Paint.NET does. Why not? I’m not sure – but kudos to whomever it is that wrote Paint.NET as only they understood arrows.
I’m told, from the professional folks on a.g.p that Photoshop and Elements handle arrows well, so, again, we have the case that image editors can certainly perform screenshot annotation tasks.
I will take a look at the screenshot annotators for Linux, but, from a quick scan, most seem to concentrate on the image-capture task, which is so trivial to accomplish at a single keyclick on all operating systems that I have to wonder why they promote the capture task so much. But I’ll take a look & report back, just in case there’s a good one out there on Linux just waiting to be discovered.
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