If a captured image contains sensitive information, you can double-click on it to redact. Backgrounds are even more limited, with three options: Transparent, White, and the aforementioned Napkin, which resembles the texture of a Three of the rest are skeuomorphic and just feel silly: Thumbtack, Tape, and Paperclip, each of which adds a cartoon version of its namesake to the top of a captured image. There is also the Capsule frame, which rounds the corners of the selected image. The two I find acceptable are Simple and Photo, which are tasteful, if wide, white borders. I have yet to find one that I actually like. Napkin gives you six frames from which to choose, but you have no way to adjust them. Image captures can be decorated with frames, which act somewhat like borders, and with backgrounds, but the selection is limited. Then, you can draw an arrow out from that thought bubble to your next idea. You can add text directly inside a shape, so you can draw a bubble, add a thought, then lock the bubble. You can use all of these Napkin features together to create diagrams and even mind maps. If you draw a line inside a locked object, Napkin instead creates a measurement line, with a text label of how many pixels long the line is. You can lock an object, and if you drag an arrow out from that object, the arrow remains linked to the object, so if you unlock it and move it around, the arrow stays connected. To draw a shape, press the Command key, and click and drag to draw it out. If you’d like to point out something with an arrow, just click, drag, and draw a straight line. If you want to add some text, just start typing. Once you have the image(s) you want, annotations are intuitive, and can be added via menus or the toolbar, or by gestures. You can add as many images to a particular napkin as you need. Screenshots can be taken of an entire window, or you can click and drag to select only part of a window. There are three ways to place an image on your napkin: open an existing file, take a screenshot, or snap a picture from a webcam. It’s hard to imagine that an iOS version isn’t in the works, but Napkin is otherwise so aligned with current Apple thinking that it’s limited to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and saves to iCloud by default (and is thus limited to the Mac App Store). Unlike most applications in its class - and most Mac applications in general - Napkin emphasizes gestures, and feels as though it would be as at home on the iPad as it is on the Mac. Napkin focuses on making visual communication as simple as possible. To drive the analogy home, its default background is a napkin texture. Napkin sets out to make visual communication as fast and simple as scribbling on its namesake. One of the most talked-about releases of late has been Napkin, a new image annotation and diagramming app from Aged and Distilled. #1631: iOS 16.0.3 and watchOS 9.0.2, roller coasters trigger Crash Detection, Medications in iOS 16, watchOS 9 Low Power Mode.#1632: Apple Card Savings accounts, SOS in the iPhone status bar, Tab Wrangler, Focus in iOS 16.#1633: macOS 13 Ventura and other OS updates, 10th-gen iPad, M2 iPad Pro, 3rd-gen Apple TV 4K, Apple services price hikes.#1634: New Messages features, Apple Q4 2022 results, Preview drops PostScript, iOS/iPadOS 15.7.1, Dvorak on iPhone and iPad.#1635: Adobe/Pantone quarrel, does Matter matter yet?, OneWorld 65W international charger, corral your email with SaneBox, e3 Software sponsoring TidBITS.
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