Visio good for annotating JPEG?

[me]

Sometimes at work we take digital pics of some kind of
machinery and need to annotate it....i.e. callouts,
distances between features etc

Is Visio a good "tool" for this?

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

It can do that, but it would not be a jpg. It would be a standard Visio file
that has a jpg image placed within it.

John... Visio MVP

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[me]

It can do that, but it would not be a jpg. It would be a standard Visio file

that has a jpg image placed within it.

ooops

yes I guess I meant to imply that

so visio is a good tool for annotating "pictures" that
way then, huh?

Can anyone send me an example if I post my email
address?

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

The Visio team itself uses the product for this. When designing a new
feature, we create what is called a "storyboard". It's a visual workflow
through the feature. We paste in pictures and screenshots of each step and
then assemble them on the Visio page, using it as a pasteboard. Then we
drag out shapes to annotate the pictures, pointing out what the objects are
and showing the flow.

 

[me]

The Visio team itself uses the product for this. When designing a new

feature, we create what is called a "storyboard". It's a visual workflow
through the feature. We paste in pictures and screenshots of each step and
then assemble them on the Visio page, using it as a pasteboard. Then we
drag out shapes to annotate the pictures, pointing out what the objects are
and showing the flow.

Is Visio better for this than say using the drawing
tools in MS Word?

Better by far?

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

In both cases you are drawing over the top of a picture, so the tools
themselves both work. The difference is how the two programs arrange the
pictures. Word wants to make them flow along with your text or flow text
around them. Visio lets you put them wherever you want.

My suggestion is to use Word if you have more text than pictures and Visio
if you have more pictures than text.

 

[me]

In both cases you are drawing over the top of a picture, so the tools

themselves both work. The difference is how the two programs arrange the
pictures. Word wants to make them flow along with your text or flow text
around them. Visio lets you put them wherever you want.

My suggestion is to use Word if you have more text than pictures and Visio
if you have more pictures than text.

Thanks so much Mark!!

That's exactly the answer/info I needed!

 

[Ai Bang Mai Fa Kin Ni]

Sometimes at work we take digital pics of some kind of
machinery and need to annotate it....i.e. callouts,
distances between features etc

Is Visio a good "tool" for this?

add the image to a visio doc.
add a box to the image, enter your text.
Edit - Select All, right-click, shape, 'group'.
Select the object; File - SaveAs - *.jpg; choose your options, a name and a location.