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Easily add text and arrows on images: what is the best tool?

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Frédéric

Thursday, 1 February 2018 Thu, 1 Feb '18

6:46 a.m.

I would like to arrows/shapes + text on pictures. What is the best tool for that? With gimp, it is easy to add text but the arrow is difficult. Any tool? Cheers, F

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Tom Horsley

Thursday, 1 February Thu, 1 Feb

7:44 a.m.

On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:46:05 +0100 Frédéric wrote:

I would like to arrows/shapes + text on pictures. What is the best tool for that? With gimp, it is easy to add text but the arrow is difficult. Any tool?

Gimp works for me: Find an arrow you like in an image with a transparent background, paste as new layer, move around and rotate as you please.

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Roberto Ragusa

10:18 a.m.

On 02/01/2018 02:44 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:

Gimp works for me: Find an arrow you like in an image with a transparent background, paste as new layer, move around and rotate as you please.

You can create your nice arrow easily with Inkscape and export a PNG that will have transparent background automatically. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it

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Frédéric

10:55 a.m.

What I would like is the simplicity of for example LibreOffice Draw on top of an image. Neither inkskape nor gimp have that simplicity. An open Draw, inserting an image, making sure the page size is the same as the image, draw on top, save as image is also not very simple. F

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Samuel Sieb

3:35 p.m.

On 02/01/2018 05:44 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:

On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:46:05 +0100 Frédéric wrote: > I would like to arrows/shapes + text on pictures. What is the best > tool for that? With gimp, it is easy to add text but the arrow is > difficult. Any tool? Gimp works for me: Find an arrow you like in an image with a transparent background, paste as new layer, move around and rotate as you please.

This is what I would use as well. Make sure the arrow image has a decent resolution and it's pretty easy to resize and move it around.

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Joseph Loo

9:34 p.m.

On 02/01/2018 01:35 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:

On 02/01/2018 05:44 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:46:05 +0100 > Frédéric wrote: > >> I would like to arrows/shapes + text on pictures. What is the best >> tool for that? With gimp, it is easy to add text but the arrow is >> difficult. Any tool? > > Gimp works for me: > > Find an arrow you like in an image with a transparent background, > paste as new layer, move around and rotate as you please. This is what I would use as well. Make sure the arrow image has a decent resolution and it's pretty easy to resize and move it around. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org

have you look at ArowCreator and arrow.scm python script and tool extension for gimp? -- Joseph Loo jloo(a)acm.org

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Samuel Sieb

Friday, 2 February Fri, 2 Feb

12:47 a.m.

On 02/01/2018 07:34 PM, Joseph Loo wrote:

On 02/01/2018 01:35 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 02/01/2018 05:44 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:46:05 +0100 >> Frédéric wrote: >> >>> I would like to arrows/shapes + text on pictures. What is the best >>> tool for that? With gimp, it is easy to add text but the arrow is >>> difficult. Any tool? >> >> Gimp works for me: >> >> Find an arrow you like in an image with a transparent background, >> paste as new layer, move around and rotate as you please. > > This is what I would use as well. Make sure the arrow image has a > decent resolution and it's pretty easy to resize and move it around.

have you look at ArowCreator and arrow.scm python script and tool extension for gimp?

That looks like a really useful extension! https://www.anhsblog.com/adding-arrow-plugin-in-gimp/

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Frédéric

1:36 a.m.

https://www.anhsblog.com/adding-arrow-plugin-in-gimp/

yes, following the recommandation of Joseph, I am currently testing arrow.scm and ArrowCreator extensions. It is not as practical as Draw but that's really that kind of things I was looking for. What is missing is the ability to draw an arrow and position a text at the tail. Thanks, F

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