Tool to annotate pictures (screenshots) for documentation purposes?

Posted by René Nyffenegger on Super User See other posts from Super User or by René Nyffenegger
Published on 2010-01-21T08:58:38Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 2:43 UTC
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Long time ago, I saw someone use a software (on Windows) that was specifically created to annotate pictures. It made it simple to add arrows, boxes, circles in "outstanding" colors to the image. Unfortunatly, I don't remember what program that was.

Now, I have to document a GUI and I'd like to use this software in order to annotate screenshots of the software so that I can show the order of flow and dependencies between various aspects of the GUI.

I'd be very happy if someone could point me into the right direction.

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