GNote series software oversight: way to draw lines w/contrasting colors or borders?!

[CZroe]

Someone should be fired over this. Every time I see how useless freebie video editors are because they can't put borders around the text to make it readable over the dynamic video content I think "It's because it's free software," but a Galaxy Note 3 should come with top of the line software to stress the S-Pen functionality. As it is, every picture or screenshot I want to annotate has the problem of "what color lines should I use?" where there often isn't a single good answer thanks to the image incorporating many colors.

The only way to contrast with any and all colors is to use a color with a contrasting border, much like the Impact font text you see in most meme images. It would be relatively trivial to select a line color and a border color and have the software automatically make the contrasting borders for every line you draw.

I am still annoyed by this stupid oversight and would like to know if anyone has made a software solution for this. Is there any Galaxy Note S-Pen software that can add a contrasting border to your hand-drawn annotations?

 

[Zaap]

Fired over a specific thing you need? That's a bit harsh don't you think. Can't say as this has ever occurred to me and I use my Notes all the time for similar tasks.

Sounds like you need to find a drawing or paint program with a neon or emboss brush that will do the effect you want over a photo or screencap. I know I've seen apps with the effect you want, but sorry can't think of which ones off the top of my head.

 

[CZroe]

Fired over a specific thing you need? That's a bit harsh don't you think. Can't say as this has ever occurred to me and I use my Notes all the time for similar tasks.

Sounds like you need to find a drawing or paint program with a neon or emboss brush that will do the effect you want over a photo or screencap. I know I've seen apps with the effect you want, but sorry can't think of which ones off the top of my head.

Fired? Absolutely. Think of all the man hours put into the S-Pen hardware and software. To have such a basic oversight with that much work put in is bad project management, bad usability testing, and just plain short-sighted. I wastes hours and hours last night trying everything I thougbt was remotely trustworthy.

I shouldn't have to download something as powerful as Photoshop for some quick, legible, annotations on photos/images. I should be able to snap the image with the camera or pull it up in the Gallery and immediately open it a simple editor that is capable of this. The one it does have is handicapped without this.

FWIW, I think most software designers suck and should be fired.

Almost every photo I have ever wanted to annotate has been almost impossible to read thanks to it being an actual photo with no good clear place to write with contrast. At the very least there should be an "automatic" color option that writes over what you mark up in negative colors.

 

[Zaap]

I should be able to snap the image with the camera or pull it up in the Gallery and immediately open it a simple editor that is capable of this.

You can do that. With third party software. It really isn't Samsung's issue.

I find it funny when people think their specific needs are so vital that it needs to be a default feature for everyone. Meanwhile, sorry I don't think very many other people consider this a big must-have to the point Samsung is really going to consider it a feature they *must* add.