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I have used Micrografx Designer 9.0 to do all my illustrations and annotati ons for a substantial electronics book. It has all the facilities for creat ing original drawings, annotating images and importing and exporting. A sea rch however shows that it has subsequently been subsumed into Corel Draw, b ut the search also suggests that the original may still be available from v arious sources. Well worth a look. Regards, Scott.
You can use Word to layer text over images and do some other tricks. The advantage there is that the layers remain separated. Bitmap type editors, like Paint and Irfanview, do irreversable edits.
I use paint.net and inkscape depending on the task.
Paint.net is a more heavily featured paint program that has layers which makes creating and moving text in it's own layer much less painful. I use this for 90% of annotation unless I need to create vector based graphics as people mentioned above.
You might look at At Affinity Designer. $50 for a good program.
Bob
The video didn't say, but implied that the text wasn't saved as text, but as pixels. If so, it couldn't be edited without deleting and re-entering. Also, each text would have to be on its own layer. Is that right?
huh that link takes me to Warrenpaints. (or something like that.) Paint with layers, would be nice.
George H.
Thanks I'll give it a look see. GH
If you want to preserve the layers you need to save in the native 'pdn' format but it happily saves as a flattened bitmap to many other formats: jpg, png etc.
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