Large View: Annotation – Tools

Large View

• Access the large view of an image by clicking on its thumbnail.

Editing Mode

• The tools can only be accessed within the editing mode.

• Activate the editing mode by clicking on the edit icon.

• The tools can be accessed/switched by selecting the adequate tool from the editing menu.

• The editing menu displays a list of tools which you can choose from.

  • Hand drawing

  • Area as Square

  • Area as Circle

  • Single Arrow

  • Double Arrow

  • Single Line

Hand drawing

• Select the hand drawing tool as shown below.

• Press and hold the left-mouse-button (or long press on touch devices) to start drawing and release to end the drawing.

Area as Square

• Select the Area as Square tool as shown below.

• Drag the cursor to create a square with the intended size.

Area as Circle

• Select the Area as Circle tool as shown below.

• Drag the cursor to create a circular area with the intended size.

Single Arrow

• The single-arrow tool can be accessed from the editing menu as shown below.

• Drag the cursor to draw the arrow.

• After drawing the arrow, you have the possibility to add an accompanying text.

• The text will be added at the starting point of the arrow which proves to be useful when labeling subjects inside pictures.

Double Arrow

• The double-arrow tool can be accessed from the editing menu as shown below.

• Drag the cursor to draw the double-arrow.

• After drawing the double-arrow, you have the possibility to add an accompanying legend. This might prove useful when you are required to indicate the scale of subjects in a given picture.

Single Line

• The line tool can be accessed from the editing menu as shown below.

• After selecting the line tool, drag the cursor across the image to draw a line with the intended length.

Info:

The annotation tools can be configured. Follow the article below for more information: Annotation Configurator