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- | ====== How to annotate slides? ====== | + | ====== How to Use Slide Annotations ====== |
- | My Pathomation comes with a set of tools to annotate and draw on your slides have been updated. | + | My Pathomation comes with a set of tools to annotate and draw on your slides.\\ |
- | The available tools are listed here: | + | These can be made at the Slide level, which appear everywhere, or at the Collection level.\\ |
+ | See these other articles for videos on [[other_features_of_collections|making annotations in collections]] and [[exporting annotations]] for use in other programs. | ||
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+ | The available tools are listed here:\\ | ||
- | 1/ Straight line & measurement tool | + | - Measurement tool |
+ | - Straight line & measurement tool | ||
+ | - Arrow & text tool | ||
+ | - Circle tool | ||
+ | - Square tool | ||
+ | - Freehand line and measurement tool | ||
+ | - Closed freehand tool | ||
+ | - Text tool | ||
+ | - Delete selected annotations | ||
+ | - Delete all annotations | ||
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+ | The line tool will show you the length of the line, and the area tools will show the area inside the annotation you have marked out. If you want to make a quick series of distance measurements that do not need to be stored, you can use the measurement tool. A video explanation of this can be viewed at https://youtu.be/AfVNdafwNMw | ||
- | 2/ Arrow & text tool | + | An illustration of the results can be seen below: |
- | 3/ Circle tool | + | {{ :How to add annotate slides_1 annotation tools.png |}} |
- | 4/ Square tool | ||
- | 5/ Freehand line and measurement tool | + | The annotation outline colour (1), body colour (2), line thickness (3) can all be changed. If drawing multiple annotations of the same type, you can toggle recursive drawing (4) which removes the requirement to select the type of annotation each time. |
- | 6/ Closed freehand tool | + | {{ :How to add annotate slides_2 annotation color size.png }} |
- | 7/ Text tool | + | The annotations you make on a slide will persist if you include this slide in a collection, slide box or course. |
- | An illustration of the results is shown here | + | |
- | {{ :annotation_types.png?600 |}} | + | Annotations can also be created at the level of a collection and will be collection specific, in this way a whole slide image belonging to different collections can be given different visible annotations in each collection. |
- | The annotations you make on a slide will persist if you include this slide in a collection, slide box or course | ||
- | The line tool will show you the length of the line, the area tools will show the surface area inside the marked area. | ||
- | I you want to make a quick series of line distance measurements that do not need to be stored you can use the measurement tool, the use is explained in this video[[https://youtu.be/AfVNdafwNMw]] | ||