Digi-Annotator

This application lets you add a note to a digital image or to create a graphic from text
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  • License:
  • Freeware
  • Publisher Name:
  • Brian Shepherd
  • Operating Systems:
  • Windows All
  • File Size:
  • 389 KB

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Digi-Annotator Description

The Digi-Annotator application was designed to be an easy to use tool that will help you add a note to a digital image or to create a graphic from text. Digi-Annotator can be used as a stand-alone tool or in conjunction with other programs that have a copy/paste ability. If you use a standard graphics program without a note adding option, you simply copy the graphic to Digi-Annotator, add your note and copy it back. Digi-Annotator was designed primarily to add notes to digital photographs though there are many other uses. You can easily drag a camera image or load it into Digi-Annotator, which can then be saved in a new size with an explanatory note either on the picture or in an area around the picture. Sometime in the future, the added note may just make the difference in understanding what the photograph was all about! There is a basic cropping facility and a sharpen option but for more than that you will have to use a dedicated graphics program. However you can copy a graphc from that program into Digi-Annotator, add your notes then copy it back into the original graphics program. Set the Watch Clipboard option and Digi-Annotator will pop up with the graphic loaded when you copy to clipboard. You can drop a graphic on it, you can copy a graphic to it. If you select to run it in the context menu you can open it by right-clicking on the file name/icon and selecting "Add a Note". You can drag graphics from your browser or from explorer or other programs that permit dragging. When you paste from clipboard it will firstly look to see if there is a graphic format it can paste. If there is no graphic, it will look for Drag-Drop data and see if there is a file it can load. If there is neither, if will look for textual content and try to load it into the program. If you want to resize a graphic, it is done by resizing the graphic to the Digi-Annotator window. Resize the window with a mouse or select a common size option in the options window. Resizing a graphic may improve the quality of output, however you do not have to resize the original to save it nor need you over-write it. Digi-Annotator is a WYSIWYG program, it saves only what you can see; hidden content will not be saved or copied. There are a number of resampling filters in Options that can be used when resizing. Normally Lanczos3 or Mitchell are the best filters for digital images but you may find that some clip images are better resized with other filters. The position of the graphic can be adjusted in the Options window. Both the Horizontal and Vertical positions can be changed. You can set the font and background colour and the border space around the graphic. The border space is adjusted using the UP/DOWN keys or a mouse wheel. You can also select a thin line frame drawn around the saved graphic, with or without rounded corners. You can select an area for cropping using CTRL+mouse. If you hold the CTRL key down when you lift the mouse, the selected area will replace the main graphic, without the CTRL key, the cropped selection will be copied to clipboard. You can rotate or flip the graphic or select whether to view the graphic full size or proportionally within the window. The options window can be opened by either selecting from the popup menu or by double-clicking the main window. The text label content is created in a seperate window opened by double clicking the text label. By resizing the window you reformat the text label content. The text label can be moved into position with the mouse. If you set the clipboard watch, it will attempt to paste or load automatically into Digi-Annotator and, if minimized, will show.


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