Annotate and Edit Photos
Draw markup, protect sensitive regions and text, and crop or straighten a photo without changing the original.
Draw markup, protect sensitive regions and text, and crop or straighten a photo without changing the original.
Open Work → Capture, choose a project, and select a ready photo from its timeline.
The full-screen viewer has two separate tools:
Both tools create instructions or derivatives alongside the uploaded file. They never rewrite the original photo or its SHA-256 fingerprint.
The markup editor includes freehand drawing, arrows, straight lines, boxes, circles, and text labels. Choose a colour and stroke size before drawing.
Use Zoom in and Zoom out when you need to mark a small detail. At any zoom above 100%, select the hand tool and drag to move around the photo. You can zoom from 100% through 800%, and pressing 0 returns to 100%.
The marks list shows every saved or unsaved mark on the current photo. Remove one mark from that list, use Undo and Redo, or use Clear to remove the whole layer.
Select Save markup when you are finished. If somebody else saved changes after you opened the editor, Capture reports the conflict instead of silently overwriting their work. Reopen the photo to review the newer version.
A photo that has markup opens with the markup on it. You do not have to press anything, and you do not have to enter the editor to see what a teammate drew. Timeline tiles show a small pen badge with the version number so you can tell which photos were marked up before you open one.
Use Markup on in the viewer toolbar to hide the layer and look at the clean photo, then select it again to bring the marks back. The original file is never changed either way.
Every save is kept. Select the Markup v3 chip on the photo, or Markup history in the photo's More menu, to see the list.
Each row shows the version number, who saved it, when, and how many marks and redactions it had.
Capture keeps the last 50 versions of a photo's markup. Restoring counts as a new save, and the row records which version it came from.
Use Blur region or Pixelate region to draw a box over a face, licence plate, access code, or other detail that must not leave your company. These are redactions, not ordinary markup: Capture renders them into protected derivatives before an external share, report, proposal, comparison, or marked-up download can use the photo.
The Redact from shares and exports row lists the photo caption and any attached voice transcripts or comments. Select a field to replace its contents with [REDACTED] in those contexts. Redacting a text field does not erase the company record.
Select Save markup to apply both media and text redactions. Once a photo has a media redaction, team members who do not have original-evidence access see the protected derivative. Only company owners and admins can retrieve the retained unredacted original. A public share link never receives a signed URL for that original.
This is useful for calling out the same inspection areas across a sequence.
Capture scales the copied coordinates when the two photos have different dimensions. Pasted marks count as new work on the destination photo and are attributed to the person who pasted them; a copied client value cannot forge another teammate's authorship.
Open the crop tool from the full-screen viewer.
The preview follows the same order used by the saved derivative: rotation and straightening first, then the crop. Select Save as derivative to apply it.
The timeline, lightbox, shared galleries, and future exports use the active edited derivative. Markup remains anchored to the original-image coordinates, so restoring the original does not leave arrows or boxes in the wrong place.
Reopen the crop tool and select Restore original. Capture removes the active crop, rotation, and straightening pointer in one step. The older edited sibling is no longer served and can be removed later by normal storage cleanup. This action does not remove saved redactions; protected viewers continue to receive the redacted derivative.
Use Download with markup in the full-screen viewer. Capture generates a separate JPEG that combines the active crop with the current markup. Saved redactions are applied before ordinary marks and cannot be omitted from this download. The original upload remains unchanged.
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