Circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back....

[Jim 2.0]

Some of you "boomers" will recognise that from Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" :

We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back
of each one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all stood up,....

Ahem, anyways, what I'm wanting to know...I've seen some people posting pictures with circles and arrows and text...and I'm wondering how do they do that? If it's photoshop, forget it...I'm not laying out the cash for that! But, if there is a free or low cost editer for photo's that will allow me to do that... Can anyone enlighten me?

Thanks, HH, Jim

 

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[bazinga]

Just replying so that I can see the responses. Right now, I have no clue what that post was supposed to mean.

 

[La Beep]

Some of you "boomers" will recognise that from Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" :

We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back
of each one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all stood up,....

Ahem, anyways, what I'm wanting to know...I've seen some people posting pictures with circles and arrows and text...and I'm wondering how do they do that? If it's photoshop, forget it...I'm not laying out the cash for that! But, if there is a free or low cost editer for photo's that will allow me to do that... Can anyone enlighten me?

Thanks, HH, Jim

If I am reading this right.... You are asking what program to use to add details to a picture. It can be done in Paint and that program comes with XP. Not sure about Vista. Be warned this is a very primitive way to do it but it is also the handiest. Other program may have drawing tools included like Google earth. (At least I thinks it does.)

Now I lost about the part about:

Some of you "boomers" will recognise that from Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant"

 

[Jim 2.0]

OK (lol) you guys are obviosly younger than me (50 plus!) Alice's Restuarant is a long rambling song from the aaa...errr 60's. The "boomers "
part refers to "baby boomers" those of us born in the 50's after all the soldiers came home from WWII. It was a baby boom...

anyways, thanks for the reply's I didn't know you could do that in "paint" I'll check it out!

Meanwhile, check this out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice's_Restaurant

 

[Montana Jim]

I use Microsoft Paint to make arrows, lines, boxes and circles to paste onto pictures and whatever... It's already on your computer and it's free.

If you play around with it you'll be able to do some cool stuff for zero cost - except some time.

 

[G.I.B.]

I use a program called Snagit 8. It's not free, about $50. I can capture virtually anything from my screen, even 'protected content' and videos. The program has some really easy ways to add what you see here.

I use it regularly. It captures my receipts from internet purchases and automatically files them. It's turned out to be quite handy for lots of things. The below picture took about 1.5 minutes to do...

 

[Montana Jim]

I use a program called Snagit 8.

THAT is pretty cool!

 

[Peerless67]

And there was only one thing you could'nt get in Alices restraunt!!!

 

[Jim 2.0]

Yep:

You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Excepting Alice

 

[Jim 2.0]

Oh yeah, and thanks to that guy in back! looks like a pretty cool program where did you get it?

Jim

 

[G.I.B.]

Here ya go...

http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp

 

[cammobunker]

Picasa......free download from Google.
Sort of a simplified (okay, much simplified) Photoshop.

Did I (eh-hem) mention it was free? It is. Free, I mean. No charge!

http://picasa.google.com/ <--------Link to that Software. The free stuff, I mean.