How to use Markup to add comments or draw on a photo in Photos on Mac?

Markup is an essential feature that helps you to design your documents and decorate your pictures stored in Photos app. Moreover, Markup contains a set of extension tools that allow you to draw on and annotate images or PDF documents within the app using arrows, shapes, signature and text. If you are using Mac running macOS Mojave, you may easily access markup tools to adorn your documents and pictures. Here, we will provide you some easy steps to use Markup feature on your Mac.

By following the below given steps you may use Markup to add comments or draw on a photo in Photos on Mac.

• On your Mac, launch the “Photos app”, double-click a photo and then click “Edit” in the toolbar.
• Click the “Extensions” button and then select “Markup.”

• From here, you may use the tools appear in the toolbar to mark up the picture.
• Moreover, you may adjust a markup by moving the pointer near the edges, then dragging the blue handles. Following are the Markup tools you may use.
• Sketch: Sketch a shape using a single stroke. If your drawing is known as a standard shape, it’s replaced by that shape; to use your drawing instead, choose it from the palette that is mentioned.
• Draw: Draw a shape using a single stroke. In order to do that, press your finger more firmly on the trackpad to draw with a heavier, darker line.
• Shapes: Click a shape, line or arrow and then drag it where you want. You may also resize the shape by using the blue handles. If there are green handles, you may use them to alter the shape.
• Highlight: Click the Shape button, click the Highlight button and then drag the highlight where you want. Moreover, you resize it using the blue handles.
• Enlarge: Click the Shape button, click the Loupe button and then drag the loupe to the area you want to magnify. You may also increase or decrease the magnification, drag the green handles and drag the blue handle to change the loupe size. You may also place multiple loupes on a photo to magnify selected areas.
• Text: Click the “Text” button, enter your text and then drag the text box where you want.
• Rotate right: You may rotate the photo by clicking the “Rotate Right” button. Continue clicking to keep rotating.
• Rotate left:  Similarly, you may rotate the photo by clicking the “Rotate Left” button. Continue clicking to keep rotating.
• Crop:To crop the picture, drag the corner handles until just the area you want to keep is shown within the frame’s border. You may also drag the frame to reposition it by clicking “Crop.”
• By selecting any of the following options, you may change the attributes of selected drawings, shapes, text and signatures.
  • To change the line style: Click the Shape Style button.
  • To change the line colour: Click the Border Colour button.
  • To change the fill colour: Click the Fill Colour button.
  • To change the font or font style: Click the Text Style button.
• After following the above given options, click  “Save Changes.”

This is how you may Markup your documents and photos. Moreover, you may also edit the already marked up picture by selecting it and then clicking the “Extensions” button and selecting Markup again.

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