Drawing and annotations.
Use pins, freehand, arrows, rectangles and ellipses to show exactly what you mean on an image, a video frame or a PDF page.
A drawn circle often says more than a sentence. Every note in the review viewer can carry a drawing, and the drawing is saved with the note: open the note later and its marks reappear on the frame or page they were made on. Drawings work on images, on video frames and on PDF pages.
The tool pill
A small pill floats over the stage whenever there’s something to draw on. It holds:
| Tool | What it does | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Pin a comment | Drops a numbered pin at a point. | Images and PDF pages |
| Draw freehand | A pen for circling, underlining and scribbling. | Images, PDF pages, video frames |
| Arrow | Drag from the tail to the head. | Images, PDF pages, video frames |
| Rectangle | Drag out a box. | Images, PDF pages, video frames |
| Ellipse | Drag out an oval. | Images, PDF pages, video frames |
Next to the tools you’ll find three stroke widths (2, 4 and 7 px), Undo the last stroke and Clear this draft. The color swatch at the left of the pill sets your ink.
Drawing and posting
- On video, pause on the frame you want first. On a PDF, scroll to the page.
- Pick a tool from the pill (on video,
Dtoggles the freehand pen). - Draw. Add as many strokes and shapes as you need; undo the last one if it goes wrong.
- Write what you mean in the composer. A chip above it confirms the note carries a mark (on video it reads "Drawing at" followed by the timecode).
- Post the note. The drawing is saved with it.
Ink and identity
Everyone in a workspace has an identity color. Your pins, your ticks on the timeline and the bullet beside your notes always use it, so you can tell at a glance who said what. The ink you draw with is a separate choice: if your color disappears into the artwork (a coral note on a coral frame), open the swatch and pick another from the palette. Your pins and bullets keep your own color either way.
Seeing drawings later
- Pins stay on the image or page as numbered discs.
- Select a note on the rail to show its drawing on the stage. One drawing is shown at a time so the frame doesn’t turn into graffiti.
- On video, selecting a note jumps to its frame and shows the drawing there.
- Drawings belong to the version they were made on. Notes from other versions are listed under Notes from other versions.
Getting out of a drawing
Esc peels back one layer at a time: the first press puts the tool down, the next discards an unposted drawing or pin, and the one after that closes the viewer. The ✕ on the composer chip ("Discard the mark") does the same for the drawing alone.
When the tools aren’t there
- Audio files have no picture, so they use a waveform instead. See Audio review.
- During Compare the composer and tools step aside, because a note belongs to one version. Exit compare to annotate.
- Files a browser can’t display can’t be drawn on until someone adds a review copy.
- Guests on a share link get the tools only when the link allows notes. See Guest review links.
- Pins aren’t used on video; a timed note does that job.