Jason Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Hi there, I'm looking around for a linux image annotation tool. Something that'll allow simple scribbling and text to be overlaid on an image. Anyone have any good ideas for such a tool? Thanks, Jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegro Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Hi there,I'm looking around for a linux image annotation tool. Something that'll allow simple scribbling and text to be overlaid on an image. Anyone have any good ideas for such a tool? Thanks, Jason like The Gimp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 I was thinking a long time ago about having something like this in mplay.... we use mplay all the time to view all kinds of things, flipbooks, rendered frames, etc etc etc... and in reviewing them we talk about the images and we have to write notes/comments etc... wouldn't it be cool to enter a mode in mplay that allowed a /very simple/ text and/or drawn overlay that could be saved out as an associated image... imaging something along the lines of the Whiteboard feature of MS Netmeeting... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitallysane Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 wouldn't it be cool to enter a mode in mplay that allowed a /very simple/ text and/or drawn overlay that could be saved out as an associated image... Something like this: http://www.framecycler.com/di/ Dragos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUsualAlex Posted May 26, 2007 Share Posted May 26, 2007 I've always wanted that ever since I saw RH's flipbook utility has that feature years ago. I think I even ask someone about this in MPlay, but no one seems to get what I say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 26, 2007 Author Share Posted May 26, 2007 Its for exactly this that I am looking for this, yup. I'm looking into Inkscape right now - vector graphics overlay on the image in SVG format sounds promising. I currently have the thing running with The Gimp - invoked via the RMB menu in MPlay (the MPmenu) but Gimp too much poo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 26, 2007 Author Share Posted May 26, 2007 Inkscape looks pretty huge too.. all you need is a pencil tool and a label tool. Proving tricky to find out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted May 26, 2007 Share Posted May 26, 2007 Doesn't maya's flipbook have some sort of annotation tool? Or some product that alias releases anyway... consorting with the enemy, I know.. but... I think this might be it : http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index...&id=6830610 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old school Posted May 26, 2007 Share Posted May 26, 2007 (edited) I think I even ask someone about this in MPlay, but no one seems to get what I say. Well there's a lot I don't get but this one, well, heck everyone gets it: why it would be a good thing to have. There is also a long standing request to have this ability to annotate over the main 3D viewport in Houdini as well. Animators would love that for drawing poses/gestures, etc. Just a pencil and a brush with the standard controls plus support a wacom pressure sensitive tablet. Use the compositor... you get the idea. <edit>and a text tool as well</edit> <disclaimer> No idea if and when any of this would be implemented. Edited May 26, 2007 by old school Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 26, 2007 Author Share Posted May 26, 2007 I was thinking there might be some good use for the old ipaint code. Although ipaint rivals The Gimp as the swiss-army knife of bitmap paint packages, there might be two or three lines of code that could be salvaged for a sketch mode for Houdini and MPlay. It'd be great to have a hotkey that activates painting in each context: over the viewport for sketching poses, over the network to scribble notes and group nodes by painting on a layer on the background image, and over the image in comp and mplay for supervisor notes and such. Come on SESI, this sounds like a great intern software project for Houdini9, no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankFirsching Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 Don't know, if this is an option, but the Beryl window manager allows to scribble anywhere on the screen. There exists a plugin "Annotate" (http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Annotate) for beryl, that allows just that to do. You only have to press Alt+Super and then you can start drawing. However for scribbles over animations it's not usefull, since it's static. And then there is this drawback with a compositing window manager and the decreased performance :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaJuice Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 Sadly Houdini isn't very usable with beryl or compiz. Which is a shame because once you tone down some of the showy effects, it really does make for a better desktop. Some neat functionality and very smooth. Here's hoping they figure out a way to sort out the issues it has with some OGL apps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafal123 Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 maya's fCheck has some kind of annotation tool, so if you load in sequence of images, then you can use your right mouse button to directly draw on any of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abigail111 Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 (edited) I know there is a image annotation tools which can be used to markup and draw objects onto an image or document, including text, freehand, line, ellipse, rectangle, rubber stamps, etc.You can have a look. Edited September 25, 2013 by Marc removing spam links Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 6 year old thread resurrection. Is this a record? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melazoma Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 We just use RV these days. Granted the annotation features have their limitations, but they work fine for our purpose. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerry1023 Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 This free VB.NET image annotation control supports to add various annotations (such as callout, ellipse and hot spot) on images and documents in VB.NET application. An annotation is metadata (e.g. comment, explanation and presentational markup) attached to text, image or other data. Annotations are often used through document viewer or image viewer in electronic products. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomRaynor Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Might be 6 years old but it would still be so bloody useful! It would be amazing if there was any advance on this...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordibares Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 A grease pen? bring it on please !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lily Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 This free VB.NET image annotation control supports to add various annotations (such as callout, ellipse and hot spot) on images and documents in VB.NET application. An annotation is metadata (e.g. comment, explanation and presentational markup) attached to text, image or other data. Annotations are often used through document viewer or image viewer in electronic products. really, will it work and add these annotation types? please give me a trial version. thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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