Posts by Samuel Palmer8

Nicholas King said:Don't. Trust me, you really don't want to go down that road 🙂.

Any raster graphics software can handle it—it's a massive headache, and honestly, even MS Paint could pull it off (except it lacks preset shapes). It would be much smarter, more efficient, and significantly easier to just pick up the basics of a proper tool and get it done there...

No, I am definitely not recommending Paint—believe me, that’s not something you want to deal with either 🙂.

I tried messing around with something in Microsoft Word, but I didn't get anywhere!
I'm trying to create something similar to the image Kyle Johnson2 posted.
I have a feeling the quality is going to tank once I try moving it from Paint over to Microsoft Word, so that probably isn't the best way to go about it...
Here is an example of what I'm looking to describe: (hopefully I set up the 🙂
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/849/primjer.jpg/

So, in the end, which program do you guys recommend? And obviously, it needs to be something I can just download for free online.
THANKS 🙂

Jack Hayes said:Just drop the image into Microsoft Word; you can add shapes, lines, connectors, callouts—whatever you need right there. Just make sure to enable the Drawing toolbar under the View menu. But does it really have to be Word? Why not try some open-source software?

Thanks for the reply! My thesis needs to be finalized in Microsoft Word, so as long as the image editor can handle what I described in my last post, I don't care which one I use. I'll give the Word method a shot and let you know how it turns out... 🙂

The title might be a bit silly, but I honestly wasn't sure how else to frame my dilemma!
I’m currently in the middle of grinding through my senior thesis, and I've hit a bit of a snag.
I need to document various professional software programs—basically explaining how to navigate them and what everything does. To give you an idea of what I mean: I open a program, take a screenshot of the interface using the print screen key, and then I need to bring that image into some kind of editor to annotate it. I want to describe what's happening in the shot, like "this icon starts a new project" or "this one selects specific materials," and have those descriptions sit next to the image in little callout bubbles pointing directly at the icons...
Hopefully, that makes sense to someone out there!
Since I'm drafting the whole thesis in Microsoft Word, I'll eventually need to move all these annotated images over into the document.
I wasn't quite sure which sub-forum this belonged in, so if the moderator could just move this to the right spot if I'm out of line, I'd appreciate it!