Working with Images in the App

Working with Images in the App

Using annotations

In Clarinspect you can annotate an image to:

  1. Show location of something

  2. Add some useful text

  3. Add shapes/colours to define an area of the image

Android

To annotate an image in the app:

  1. Tap the photo

  2. Press the + button to bring up the annotation options

  3. Choose the shape you would like to use

  4. Use the buttons down the right hand side to change the colour / style of the shape

  5. Resize/move the shape using the dots on the corners of the shape



Top Tip: If you have a shape selected when you add the next one, it will copy the colours, transparency and thickness of the existing selected shape. 

When a shape has green dots, you can move the shape around

To rotate or resize a shape, tap one side of it - the green dot with a black border is locked and you can use the larger green dot to resize/rotate

Rectangles are slightly different:

To move a rectangle, tap the left side to activate 2 green dots

To resize rectangles tap one side or corner of the rectangle and this will give you red dots which you can move. 

To rotate a rectangle, tap the top or bottom left corner which you are wanting to rotate. This will go green and the opposite left side corner will ‘lock’ (black and green dot). 


iOS

To annotate an image in the app:

  1. Tap the photo

  2. Press the shapes icon to bring up the annotation options

  3. Choose the shape you would like to use

  4. Tap and drag on the screen to create the shape

  5. Use the buttons down the right hand side to change the colour / style of the shape

  6. Resize the shape using the dots on the corners of the shape



Top Tip: If you have a shape selected when you add the next one, it will copy the colours, transparency and thickness of the existing selected shape. 

When a shape has green dots, you can move the shape around

To rotate or resize a shape, tap the side you are wanting to move. This will stay as a green dot and the other dot will turn black to show it is locked. 


Swapping a Background Image in the App

If you have already chosen an image and added annotations to it, you can change the image without losing your annotations. 

This allows you to keep all existing annotations and won’t slow down the work flow.

Android

1. Open the image by tapping on it

... then open the image menu

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2. Choose 'Replace image' 


3. Choose option for getting new image


4. After choosing option, tap on 'REPLACE’


5. Choose new image

This can be from Google Drive, One Drive, Dropbox etc.


6. Move the annotations around to where they need to be.

They will be roughly where they were on the old image


iOS

1. Either take or select a new image in place of the existing image. 

2. You will be asked if you want to ‘Keep Existing Annotations?’

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3. Tap Yes

Sharing an Image

With Clarinspect you can share an image you have taken in the app.  You can share images with or without any  annotations

Android:

  1. After taking your image click into it.

  2. Select the 3 dot button at the top of the screen

  3. There you will find ‘Share Image’.

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If you have annotated the image you will see the option to share the image with annotations or without.
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Note: sharing the image without annotations will not remove them from the app.

iOS:

After taking your image:

  1. Tap and hold on the image

  2. There you will find the ‘Share image’ button

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If you have annotated the image then you will see the option to share the image with annotations or without.
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Note: sharing the image without annotations will not remove them from the app.

Credits

Floorplans shown are courtesy of Canterbury District Health Board.


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