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How to draw, edit, hide, and share markup on clinical photographs in Dermi Atlas, point with Live Pointer during a consultation, and carry marks into comparisons and exports.
Annotations put a mark exactly where a finding is on the photograph, and the mark stays with that image every time it is opened. The photograph itself is never modified, every mark remains editable, and each export decides whether the markup is included. For pointing at something during a conversation without adding anything to the record, Live Pointer draws strokes that fade on their own.
The canvas toolbar carries a mode selector with View, Arrange, and Annotate; the full body and zone review canvases add Lesion for placing lesion markers. The drawing tools work only in Annotate mode, which is offered while the Atlas license is active. Escape or the mode selector leaves Annotate mode, and returning to it arms the tool used last.
An image filter stays active in every mode, so a photograph can be annotated while it is read under a filter. Marks are never filtered and keep their own colors.
Annotate mode offers a Select chip followed by six drawing tools:
On narrow screens the tools fold into a single tool picker.
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A property bar sits above the toolbar. With a drawing tool armed and nothing selected, it sets the style of the next mark: a color from eight presets or a custom color (red by default), a stroke width from 1 to 20, and a solid or dashed line. For Text and Pin, a font size control replaces the width and dash controls; the starting size is proportional to the photograph, so a label reads at a comparable size on a close-up and on a full-face photograph.
With a mark selected, the same bar restyles that mark alone, and its delete control is active. A single image holds up to 200 marks, as does a single comparison group.
Marks are anchored to the image, not the screen, so a mark stays on the anatomy it was placed on:
The Select tool makes existing marks interactive. Selecting a mark raises its property bar; dragging moves it, and the corner handles resize it. A shape can be recolored and switched between solid and dashed, a text or pin label can be resized, and the delete control removes the selection.
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Undo and Redo sit in the toolbar and answer to the standard keyboard shortcuts. Each change is one step: one recolor, one width change, one move, one deletion. Undoing clears the selection, so a mark is selected again before its property bar returns. The history covers the open surface only and ends when the image viewer is closed or the page is reloaded; the marks themselves are already saved.
Clear Annotations, in the Visibility section of the More Options menu in Annotate mode, removes every editable mark on the surface at once, without a confirmation. One Undo restores them. In a comparison it clears the comparison marks and leaves the marks saved on the photographs.
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Each mark is saved as it is drawn and appears on every other device with the same image open, and a colleague's drawing is shown as it happens. Real-Time Synchronization Across Devices describes what colleagues see.
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On the canvas, the Visibility control in the toolbar opens a popover with a Show Annotations toggle and an opacity slider for the marks. The slider stops at 20 percent, so faded marks stay visible. Hiding marks changes only the display.
Image cards in the Image Pool and the entry workspace show each image's marks on the thumbnail. The toolbar toggle of those pages reads Hide Annotation Overlays or Show Annotation Overlays. With the overlays hidden, a card whose image carries marks shows a badge with the number of hidden marks.
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The default for the card overlays is set on the Preferences page under Annotation Overlays on Image Cards, on by default. With Remember Selection active, the last choice is kept on the account and follows it to every device.
A comparison shows two kinds of marks:
In a comparison, the Visibility popover lists Comparison Annotations and Photo Annotations as separate rows, each with its count. The opacity slider applies to both.
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The Pin tool records a treatment site and a quantity together on the photograph. A click drops an anchor dot and hangs a label chip below it on a short stem, so the chip never covers the point. The label opens for editing with the next number filled in, which typing replaces, and Enter confirms it. A label holds up to 100 characters.
Setting a color with no pin selected changes the color of the next pins, so a run of pins can be color-coded by product or depth; selecting a pin and choosing a color recolors that pin alone. The font size control enlarges the chip while the dot stays in place.
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The pins form a treatment map on the photograph: planned sites and units are recorded during the consultation and read back at the next appointment.
Live Pointer is for pointing at a finding while a patient or colleague is looking at the screen. It is offered in View and Arrange modes on the image viewer, the comparisons, and the full body and zone review canvases.
A colleague with the same image open sees the strokes in the color of the person drawing, fading the same way, so two clinicians can point at the same finding from different screens.
Clinician accounts download a photograph from the Image Properties drawer. For an annotated photograph, the Download Image drawer offers the annotated image or the original; see Viewing Images.
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A composed export sets annotation visibility for that export: a single-image export has a Show Annotations toggle, and a comparison export offers As arranged, All annotations shown, and All annotations hidden, the same choices as PDF reports. See Exporting Images with Custom Export and Generating PDF Reports.
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