Similarly, all adjustments can be made in the Preview Panel directly. Transform - Resize/Rotate/Re-position: Under the Transform section, you can change the size of the annotation, rotate it, or position it with parameters. For Text Shadow, you can select the shadow type and then adjust the parameters. For Text Border, you can change the color, choose the opacity level, blur range, and size. Text Border & Text Shadow: To adjust the appearance of texts, just enable the Border section and/or the Shadow section. If you want to roll back all settings to the default, click the button at the top right corner.
Text Content – Fonts/Color/Style: Enter the text in the box and choose the font, size, color, and format style you want. Properties Panel on the right enables you to modify the settings or change the specific parameters for annotations’ customization – Text content, Text Border, Text Shadow, Transform, Shape, Behavior (for text animation). After that, all marked ones will be collected in the first category – Favorite, which can be easily accessed. Mark the Annotation as a favorite (New!)įor frequently-used annotations, you can mark them as the favorites by clicking the heart icon. Then move the Playhead to a new location, right-click the timeline, and select Paste from the sub-menu.ģ. To copy an annotation, just right-click the annotation on the timeline and select Copy from the sub-menu. Alternatively, you can right-click on the annotation and choose Delete. To remove an annotation, select it on your Timeline or in the Preview Panel and press Delete on your keyboard. Now you can double-click the annotation to have a preview, then drag it to the timeline or Preview Window. To add an annotation to your video, switch to the Annotation tab and select a category from Text, Dialog box, Line&Arrow, Sketch, and Shapes. Add Behaviors to Text for Text Animation ( New!).Mark the Annotation as a favorite ( New!).ScreenMarker is not in development anymore which means that it is unlikely that anything new will get added to the program.Annotations are used to convey key messages to your viewers by adding text, dialog box, line, arrow, sketch, or shapes. The tools it provides are basic for the most part tools to add text directly or to draw certain shapes such as arrows directly would have been useful. The program adds options to draw on the screen useful during presentations, remote sessions, or demo recordings. It comes as a tiny sub-100 Kilobyte application and uses about 2 Megabytes of memory while it is active. ScreenMarker is super-lightweight program for Windows. You may also want to check out Active Presenter if you need to create demos and screen recordings. It provides a different set of tools less shapes that you can draw but a tool to highlight content better on the screen. There is Epic Pen, an open source program that works similar to ScreenMarker.
WINDOWS SCREEN ANNOTATION FREE
ScreenMarker comes without any options or settings, not that those are needed as the functionality is pretty much self-explanatory and sufficient for most tasks.Īs far as free alternatives are concerned, there are some. Anything that you draw on screen using ScreenMarker sits on top of any other screen element.