Igor's Computer Blog

(Since posting this I've also become very fond of  Jing , which is the tool I use when taking screen shots) Earlier , I mentioned how important communication is to software engineering. A key tool in communication is being able to highlight portions of images.  For this task I use some basic features of Paint.Net .  In the below image I want to draw your attention to the name of the dress, and the name of the color of the dress. Without these highlighted regions, it's likely your eye wouldn't have picked up the points I wanted you to see. To perform these highlights in Paint.Net do the following: Copy image into Paint.Net Select the ellipse tool Specify Fill Options as Draw shape with outline Set Secondary color(the fill color) to yellow Set transparency to 50 % Draw ellipse

Paint.Net is a nice compromise between advanced picture editing software, and picture editing software usable by humans. The biggest problem I had with paint.net is figuring out how to download it. In what I assume is an attempt to make advertising dollars, this website exists that make it impossible to download Paint.net without accidentally downloading crap.  Here's a direct paint.net download link . Update here are my usages of Paint.Net: Highlighting portions of an image  Other you'd like to see