Bug 271829

Summary:	Add free annotation area over the images
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component:	Database-Schema	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bkorb, caulier.gilles, kde-2011.08
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Dotan Cohen 2011-04-27 11:11:30 UTC

Version:           2.0.0 (using KDE 4.6.2) 
OS:                Linux

Please add a feature for adding text overlay annotations to photographs. Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Dotan Cohen 2011-04-27 11:13:11 UTC

In addition to being useful for some workflows (such as annotating astronomy images), this feature would increase user interaction with the application, making Digikam more fun to use.

Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2011-04-27 11:42:09 UTC

What do you mean by "text overlay annotations" exactly ?

Comments ? Tags ? Captions & Tags side bar is not enough (and already very powerfull)

Gilles Caulier

Comment 3 Dotan Cohen 2011-04-27 13:54:42 UTC

Looking to Okular's "Review" feature for inspiration, one could overlay these objects  over the image:
1) Text note, perhaps optionally styled as a comic-book "word bubble".
2) Fixed geometric shape (square, ellipse)
3) Straight line
4) Arrow

These objects would not be part of the jpg/png encoded image, but rather overlayed and able to be displayed/hidden.

I personally would use them to annotate important details in astronomy and engineering photos, but I could image the wife using it to add funny "quotes" to people in photos.

Comment 4 bkorb 2014-01-04 20:48:43 UTC

I personally would like to annotate some accident photos so the viewer (insurance company et al.) can more readily tell what they are looking at.  :(

Comment 5 caulier.gilles 2014-09-02 09:56:02 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 318351 ***