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Highlight or call out portions of a still image in iPhoto?

I am going to be doing a video in iMovie discussing iron-on T-shirt transfers from an old magazine ad. As I discuss each transfer on the page, I need a way to circle or highlight the transfer I am talking about. I thought I would need to take the page into Photoshop, highlight each of the transfers on the page and save each as a separate image file – a big job when there are 50 transfers on the page! So I just wanted to see if there is a way to do this directly within iMovie before I go to all that trouble.

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Posted on Jan 3, 2023 7:17 AM

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Posted on Jan 3, 2023 2:26 PM

By clicking on it, select the transparency clip that you placed in the upper timeline. That will cause the overlap icon (the one that looks like overlapping squares) to appear in the tool bar in the upper right of your screen. Click on the overlap icon and a selection box the the word Cutaway in it will appear just below and to the left of the overlay icon. Click on the selection box and a dropdown menu will appear, showing Picture in Picture as a choice. Click on Picture in Picture and your transparency will appear in a square in the preview screen. You can drag the square where you want, and drag the corners out to increase or decrease the size.



-- Rich



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Jan 3, 2023 2:26 PM in response to Timothy Arends1

By clicking on it, select the transparency clip that you placed in the upper timeline. That will cause the overlap icon (the one that looks like overlapping squares) to appear in the tool bar in the upper right of your screen. Click on the overlap icon and a selection box the the word Cutaway in it will appear just below and to the left of the overlay icon. Click on the selection box and a dropdown menu will appear, showing Picture in Picture as a choice. Click on Picture in Picture and your transparency will appear in a square in the preview screen. You can drag the square where you want, and drag the corners out to increase or decrease the size.



-- Rich



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Jan 3, 2023 9:23 AM in response to Timothy Arends1

Hi, Timothy,


I'm having a little difficulty in envisioning exactly what you are trying to circle or highlight. Could you post a screen shot that shows it?


iMovie doesn't have any specific feature for inserting circles or arrows, etc, other than emojis and symbols in titles. However, you can create circles and arrows and other inserts in transparencies and overlay and position them with the Picture in Picture feature.


It's easy to do, and once you make your template you can use it over and over again. Just make a duplicate of any random photo and open it in the Preview app on your Mac. Do an Edit/Select All, Edit/Delete. That leaves you with a blank transparency screen.


Then do Tools/Annotate and you will be given choices to select an arrow or circle, or rectangle, or line, etc. into the transparancy. Chose one, say a circle. And then save it





Then drag the saved transparency circle into the upper timeline above your clip in your iMovie project. You can then use the Picture in Picture overlay feature to overlay the circle into your clip, and size and position it.



-- Rich



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Jan 3, 2023 10:12 AM in response to Rich839

Sorry, I meant to say iMovie in the title.


Your idea sounds interesting. Do you think it would work with an image like this? I want to circle one shirt at a time in the video. Naturally, the image would be cropped to fit the width of iMovie so the individual designs would be visible.


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Highlight or call out portions of a still image in iPhoto?

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