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Before covering how to annotate images, it is important to know the concept of image canvas and virtual canvas. Application has two canvases, one is Image Canvas and the other is Virtual Canvas.
In the above picture, Region within orange border that has the image is Image Canvas and the region between the orange border and the blue border is Virtual Canvas. This virtual canvas does not have any real boundary. Annotations can be added anywhere on the display space in Draw mode.
In the above picture, Annotations are created both on image and virtual canvases. There are two ways of exporting this picture to clipboard. One is to flatten the annotations on image and copy image to clipboard and the second is to flatten all annotations on the virtual canvas and copy it to clipboard.
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Style properties include Outline, Fill and Arrow properties. Text properties include text, font, text styles and alignment properties.Effects cover the shadow and shadow colors. Size tab enables to change the size, location, rotation angle properties. Finally, Presets tab helps to set border, fill and text colors by selecting a preset color combination. Color combinations are carefully selected in presets for best compatibility.
If a particular set of properties are appealing, they can be set as default by selecting Set as Default checkbox and clicking Apply button. Next time, when the same shape is used, saved defaults are applied. In addition to using properties dialog to change annotation properties, additional quick help is provided from the toolbar. Top toolbar provides important annotation property change controls without requiring to open properties window. These cover most frequently changing annotation properties. The following shows the Tool Bar properties:. These properties are applied to selected annotations as applicable.
Arrange and Group Annotations
Annotations can be ordered ( arranged ) using the toolbar annotations order combo-box as shown below:
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