TOPIC: Idea to speed up photos even more!

Dana you lost me on why running your pics through a third party software such as snagit is faster than doing so after batch add directly in HIP.
I tried that with snagit and other photo edit softwares just for a different looks years ago but it certainly is not faster and actually takes longer so do yourself a favor and just edit in HIP to get faster.

If there is a reason you feel snagit is faster please let me know and I will do the same in my Serif ,photoscape,or Photofiltre software.

Hi Bob,
I'm not really all that concerned about the speed. I'm more concerned about the quality and the markup.
I don't do my reports on site.  I like to use snaggit editor because it provides me with more options for the markup
and on-picture captioning. Putting the actual text on the pic with arrows pointing to the relevant item or part makes it possible to
add more than one label to a pic if needed.I know it's an extra step and that takes a little more time.  This is offset by not
needing to add text to the caption line in HIP.

OK I see where you are at.
I use to be the same way.
Actually I add captions faster in program than outside it.Same goes for arrows,circles,text,etc.
My process is same as yours but over the last few years evolved to using photo captions as physical location descriptions only since the actual text comments do that for me in comment edit.
I also use the program that I keep trying to tell you guys about called Active Words which allows me to shortcut words, sentences,paragraphs that are frequently used.
This allows me to keep my right hand on the mouse to use dropdowns as I type one handed with the left.

The only thing faster might be to slot on mobile ahead of time as I take the pictures.
The issue there however is picture quality as I use a very good camera and look is important.

Got It!  I use Dragon Naturally Speaking 11.5 extensively when actually writing the reports.
On my desktop computer, it can type faster than I can talk.  I've gotten very good at "voicing"
comments on the fly.  This newest version of Dragon works sweet!  I was having some problems with the older version
and decided to upgrade to 11.5 and that pretty much handled all issues I was having.  

Using 10.5, I had to cut and paste from the dictation box rather than work directly into HIP.  10.5 would frequently crash
when trying to interact directly into HIP. Using the dictation box was an extra couple of steps that was inefficient
and slowed me down.  Now I work directly into HIP.

In fact, I launch Dragon first thing in the morning and keep it running in the background all day and use it almost everywhere
I need to comment or enter text such as here.  I grabbed this latest version of Dragon from Amazon while it was on sale.
It even included a new headset.  The only downside to using Dragon all the time that one can get a bit rusty with their typing skills.
I even have a voice to text application running on my Bionic Android phone that allows me to speak rather than type text messages.
With all this "assistive technology", we will soon become so dependent on it that we will not be able to function without it.

It's sort of a corollary to the old joke about "How do you silence an Italian?  Tie his hands behind his back!"

You hit dead on why I stopped using dragon.
Plus how do you listen to padora then?

As mentioned, the newest 11.5 version seems to have handled the issues.  It works fine directly into HIP comments fields.
No more cut & paste.  On sale at Amazon for about $50.