Can I put a mark, a red dot, on a photo?

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Can I put a mark, a red dot, on a photo?

Hi, sorry for this newbie question, have never used iPhoto and need to know if I can use it to place a red dot on a part of any photo. ???

I am posting some pictures on a gardening forum. Trying to identify a certain type of tree. There are many trees in each photo so they suggested putting a red dot on the tree I'm targeting so they can see what the heck to ID. Can I do this?

Can I take a photo on my desktop and put it in iPhoto and use that software to place a red dot on a particular tree in the photo, then have iPhoto save that photo with the red dot, then upload it to photobucket where I can paste it into the forum so the tree will finally be identified?

And if iPhoto will do this, how? What steps do I take?

Thanks!

iBook 14", Mac OS X (10.4.10), will upgrade in a year or two ...

Posted on Oct 3, 2007 4:43 PM

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Answer 1

Yer_Man

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Oct 4, 2007 12:31 AM in response to Cascadians

Cascadians

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.

No, iPhoto won't do this for you. It's a photo organiser, you need an image editor.

Check out Acorn, Photoshop Elements or Seashore. There are many others. Search on MacUpdate.

If you don't normally use iPhoto then leave it put of the mix. Use the Editor to mark the pic, then upload to wherever using your Web browser as you normally would.

Regards

TD

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Cascadians Author

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Oct 4, 2007 4:28 AM in response to Yer_Man

THANK YOU Terence!

Your answer was really helpful.

BTW in 1998 I bought one of the original bondi blue iMacs Rev A and was active on the first Apple Discussions. But then I got too busy to continue and for some reason those post #s aren't reflected on my account.

Bought an Epson scanner back then that has photoshop elements (lite?) but I can't get it to work on this iBook. I'll have to look for the simplest image editor out there since all I need to do is put red dots on 6 photos.

I am planning to upgrade and learn the entire iLife software suite, just no time now.

Thank you Terence! Will check out your recommendations.

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Oct 4, 2007 7:04 PM in response to Cascadians

Bought an Epson scanner back then that has photoshop elements (lite?) but I can't get it to work on this iBook.

There is no "lite" version of Elements. If it is Elements 1, you will need to install classic. Later versions of Elements should work okay, although some PE 2 discs also require classic to install (but not to run the program, unlike PE 1).

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