OT: How to hightlight areas in screenshots

[SeaMaiden]

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I'd like to know how EgoSun and Dreamer highlighed the picture with different colors. I understand how to do the screenshot (capture) in XnView, but how did you highlight parts of that screenshot with yellow, pink and green? Did you use XnView to do that or another application?

[Lesmo16]

I'd like to know how EgoSun and Dreamer highlighed the picture with different colors. I understand how to do the screenshot (capture) in XnView, but how did you highlight parts of that screenshot with yellow, pink and green? Did you use XnView to do that or another application?

@SeaMaiden:
You can do that with PAINT - think you know it.

[Dreamer]

I'd like to know how EgoSun and Dreamer highlighed the picture with different colors. I understand how to do the screenshot (capture) in XnView, but how did you highlight parts of that screenshot with yellow, pink and green? Did you use XnView to do that or another application?

I used just link to that screenshot.

[helmut]

Think you cannot do this with MS Paint. Think there's two ways to achieve this:

1.) Use a graphic program that supports opacity (e.g. Corel PhotoPaint, Adobe Photopaint).

2.) Use some kind of trick in XnView (or other graphic programs):
a. In XnView, open an image and select an area which you want to highlight
b. Menu "Image > Adjust > Brightness/Contrast/Gamma/Balance"
c. Activate "Apply to image", and then play with the RGB balance. The adjustment will be applied on the selected area, only.
d. Confirm with "OK" if you are happy with the result.

[Lesmo16]

You can do that with PAINT

Think you cannot do this with MS Paint.

Sorry I wasn't right, but Helmut is ...

Please try PhotoFiltre - it does it!

Like xnView, it's a very fine Freeware from France.