Annotate Your Image

As you can see in the image below, there are several ways that you can annotate your images.

When you are more familiar with Preview, you can play around with the various Tools and see just what they can do.

Add Arrows, Lines and Text

But for now I am going to show you how to add Arrows, Lines and Text to your image.

Click on Tools, then scroll down to Annotate (red arrow) then scroll across to Arrow or Line (green arrow)

When you click on Arrow or Line, it will immediately appear in your image, as shown below.


You can then move it to where you want it, and adjust the length of it, and also change the colour.

If you make a mistake, just hit delete. But be sure not to click anywhere else in the meantime, or you will not be able to delete it nor edit it further in any way.

In the image above, the green arrow has blue dots at either end of it. That means that it is still in editing mode, and I could move it, adjust its size or change its colour if I wished



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AllyJay21 Premium
Thanks for sharing this, it is really helpful....I am also wondering how to change the background colour of the entire image...can this be done on this editor as well?
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Chrissies Premium
Hi Ally
I am very happy that you found this training useful.
So far I have not yet found a way to change the background colour. If I wanted to do that, I would probably use Canva.com
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AlanJE Premium Plus
Thanks for sharing Chrissie, best Alan
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Chrissies Premium
You are very welcome Alan :)
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Jackiex4 Premium
Well, I didn't know about this feature.
Thanks so much. I've bookmarked the training as I know I'll be coming back to it.
Thanks Chrissie
Jackie
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Chrissies Premium
I'm so happy if it helps you Jackie :)
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buffetearns Premium
Cool Chrissies!

You are the member that informed us of the Magnifying glass on iPhone as well, also cool! Lol

Have a great day!

Wayne
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Chrissies Premium
Thank you so much Wayne :)
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bigrog44 Premium
Thanks for sharing, Chrissie.
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Chrissies Premium
You are very welcome Roger :)
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