I need to make some screenshots like the images in the following questions & wikipedia pages.
- Bad font anti-aliasing in Ubuntu
- Who provides the Internet service to Internet Service Providers (ISPs)? (Internet map, Wikipedia)
- Pixel example (Wikipedia)
Currently, I'm using picpick (for screenshot) and GIMP (for image editing) on Windows XP, gnome-screenshot and GIMP on Fedora 18 (GNOME3 fallback mode). Without a proper tool I have to take several steps to make a final screenshot.
- Capture original screenshot, save as file1.png
- Using image editor or image viewer to zoom out file1.png
- Capture the zoomed screenshot to file2.png
- Open file2.png with same image editor, and do the following
- Draw borders carefully on both original and enlarged image, to make sure 2 borders are matched. (The borders of image in ”Bad font anti-aliasing in Ubuntu“ are not matched, so I guess it's drew by hand too)
- Cut the enlarged image with it's border (part of file2.png), and paste into file1.png
- Draw the projection lines
The final screenshot (there's a transparent character "a" after rgb)
It took me more than 7 minutes to make this example screenshot using gnome-screenshot & GIMP, most of the time are costed by selecting rectangles and drawing borders and lines. So I'm wondering is there an image editor, which can easily
- Select rectangle area (optionally, combining Ctrl orShift key to select square area)
- Display enlargement inside the same image (better in a different layer)
- And have options to draw borders and projection lines
actionon Photoshop - Photoshopactions are just macros with a different name.