I tend to use Inkscape a lot for that kind of thing. It's a little bit more friendly than GIMP and does raster graphics which often look nicer. I used it for annotating all my figures in my dissertation.
-Jordan On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:42 AM, David Groos <djgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I want students to be able to annotate images, such as photos taken through > a microscope, adding arrows and labels to parts of the image, for example. > It might also be nice if there were contrast/brightness/saturation > controls. Need the ability to export back to jpeg/png. I don't want really > any other capabilities. I just used GIMP for the first time and I had to > wade through 'layers' and tons of other concepts that I don't need but it > does look awesome. Does anyone have advice on software that would be good > for this need? This is a very key app in a science classroom and will form > part of the basic set of apps for my program. > > Thanks! > David > > -- > edubuntu-devel mailing list > edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel > > -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel