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Re: Idea to speed up photos even more! 12 years 5 months ago #48884

Does it work with the TV or radio turned up?....:)
Plus I have a hard time talking with food in my mouth...haha.
Seriously you were correct that it erodes your typing skills and that is a bad thing now that we all use many different devises during the day.
My previous comment was made while hitting Dunkin Donuts for instance.

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Re: Idea to speed up photos even more! 12 years 5 months ago #48885

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LOL, I have the microphone hot keyed and usually remember to turn it off when it's not needed.
I say usually because sometimes I forget and find it typing away a phone conversation or trying to
make sense out of my dogs barking and howling.  ::) The best thing about using Dragon is that it can actually spell!
My spelling isn't that bad but I have a few bad typing habits like using "teh" instead of "the" that I'm finding very hard to break.

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Re: Idea to speed up photos even more! 12 years 5 months ago #48886

Good thing about the spelling issue is after about 1,000 reports you already know all the common words.
Plus Active words has auto correct.(counterpoint) :)

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Re: Idea to speed up photos even more! 12 years 5 months ago #48887

Dana, you can add text onto a pic as many times as you want and do arrows in HIP. What does snagit add for annotations that HIP doesnt?

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Hi Dom,
Part of the reason I use it SnagIt Editor is familiarity.  I've been using it a long time and am very comfortable with all of its features.
It is also very flexible as to what annotations I use, be it single ended arrows, double ended arrows, circles, ovals, boxes etc. as well as being able to change line thickness, color and position/orientation very easily. I am also able to select various fonts and then use Bold/italic/underline if I wish. It also has transparency and overlay capabilities that I use for my infrared work.  I can take a digital picture and overlay an infrared picture, adjusting its transparency so that the underlying picture still shows through but the problem area shows up via the infrared picture. A straight infrared thermogram can be rather cryptic and difficult to understand if one is not trained to interpret them.  This way the digital image provides a reference for the infrared image that illustrates a thermal anomaly that would not be visible to the naked eye.

There is even a feature by which I can make a particular area a "hotspot" that when moused over pops up a link that can be clicked to step out to another Web page to look at for additional information about that particular thing.  Of course this is something I don't use in my reporting but have used in my web work.
 I totally understand that as a small part of the overall program, HIP's picture editing functions are not likely to be as complete or flexible as a dedicated program would be.  It's just me.  I'm a geek and I like geek toys. ;D

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Re: Idea to speed up photos even more! 12 years 5 months ago #48893

HIP does all of that except double ended arrows and the hotspot feature. We've had the IR overlay for a few years too.

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