Edit and Markup Photos

When you tap a photo on the Event Details screen (see Maintain Event Details), the editing screen opens, where you can edit and mark up a photo.

You can swipe left and right to move between photos.

From this screen, you can do the following:

You can swipe left and right to move between photos.

You can change the name of the photo when you tap the name. By default, a photo is given the name of the task it was created from.

You can toggle the Can Report status of a photo. Can Report is an optional field that can be used in report templates to select only key photos for reporting.

You can mark up, crop/rotate, share or delete a photo using the four icons on the top of the screen. See below for more information about these functions.

Markup

Tapping will take you to the markup screen.

At the bottom of the screen, you can see the markup tools:

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You can use the tools as follows:

Use the tools for a pencil, highlighter, pen, eraser, smudge tool, ruler and colour picker as usual.

Tap the plus to show more options, including description, text box, signature, magnifier, and shape tools.

Tap the ellipsis to enable or disable auto minimisation, drawing with finger or to make settings for the pencil tool.

Tap colour to choose the colour to mark up the photo with.

Tap shape to choose the shape to mark up the photo with. Pen allows freehand drawing. When drawing other shapes, you are dragging from one corner of the shape’s bounding rectangle to the other.

Tap line thickness to set the thickness of the line shapes will be drawn in.

Tap text to add text to the photo. Tap the photo to initially place your blank text box — the box will be placed centred on the location you tap. Type text, using either the on-screen keyboard or a keyboard connected to your iPad (via the magnetic Smart Connector or via Bluetooth). To move the edit cursor around within the text you are typing, use the cursor keys on a physical keyboard (possibly in conjunction with Shift, Control, Option and Command keys) or long-hold the spacebar on the on-screen keyboard, and then drag. For multi-line text, press Enter at an appropriate point. You can drag the whole text box around the screen, or drag the white drag-handle at the bottom right of the text box to resize/rotate the text.

Tap erase to erase some or all of existing mark-up.

Hint

You can create a dashed line by drawing a continuous line and then swiping across it with the eraser.

Tap select to select a previously created markup item. You can then drag that item to a new location. If you select a text markup, you can edit the text. While a markup item is selected, a trash icon will appear at the bottom right. Tap this to delete the selected markup item.

If required, you can undo and redo your changes using the buttons at bottom left.

Use Cancel and Done buttons at top left corner to keep or discard your changes.

Rotate

You can rotate the image right or left by tapping or respectively. This rotates the image in 90° steps.

Crop and Rotate

Tapping takes you to the crop-and-rotate screen. Use the slider at the bottom of the screen to rotate the photo by an arbitrary angle, from 180° anticlockwise to 180° clockwise. Or tap any of the five buttons below the slider to select specific angles.

Note

Using angles other than -180°, -90°, 0°, 90° or 180° will crop away part of your photo.

If required, you can also crop your photo.

Press Done or Cancel at the top right to keep or discard your changes.

Discard

Tap to discard this photo and return to the Event Details screen (see Maintain Event Details). This is different from tapping the < Event Details button at the top left, which will return you to Event Details without discarding the photo.