There are many third-party apps with which you might annotate screenshots.
However, there are far fewer annotation tools that enable users to draw directly on the Windows desktop.
This is how you’re able to draw on the Windows 10 and 11 desktop with those apps.
However, tools for adding shapes, straight lines, and text are only available in Epic Pen Pro.
How to Use Epic Pen to Draw on Your Desktop
Click thepenbutton on Epic Pens drawing toolbar.
To change the pen width, clickpen sizeand select smaller or larger options.
you might select one of four colors on the toolbars palette.
Hold down theleft mouse buttonand move the cursor around to draw on your desktop.
To access that tool, click thepenbutton and selecthighlighter.
Or you’re free to press theCtrl+Shift+F4hotkey to use it.
To eradicate pen strokes and highlights, click theeraserbutton.
Then you’re free to punch pen strokes and highlights to erase them.
you’re free to also clear all drawings from the screen by selecting theclear screenoption.
Epic Pens camera option enables you to preserve your drawings and annotations bytaking screenshots within Windows.
Click thetake screenshotbutton to activate the screen-capture utility.
Then drag the rectangle over the area of the desktop to capture, and click either thesaveorcopy to clipboardoption.
Epic Pen has an arrow and shapes you could activate on a limited-time trial basis.
Click thelineoption to select arrow, rectangle, or ellipse.
Then select theStart free trialbutton.
To do so, clickMenu>controls.
Select theEnable the Text toolorEnable the Whiteboard tooloption to activate one of those features and share gadget resources.
This is also a portable app for which no installation is needed.
Click thePen 1option, and scribble on the desktop by holding theleft mouse buttonand moving the cursor.
you’re free to also select three other pen options for different colors.
The fifth pen is a transparent highlighter option.
ClickPen 5to activate the tools highlighter.
you might utilize this tool for highlighting things in presentations.
you’re able to adjust the drawing tools widths by selectingPen width.
Drag the slider along the bar to increase or decrease the width of your pen.
Click theSnapshot(camera) button on the apps toolbar to activate it.
Drag the rectangle around an area to include in the captured output to take the picture.
That snapshot will automatically save to a folder path specified within gInksGeneraltab.
To do so, youll need to close gInks toolbar first by clicking itsExitdrawing option.
Then right-tap the gInk system tray icon and selectOptions.
Click thePenstab on theOptionswindow, and snag the checkboxes for additional pens.
you could also set custom hotkeys for accessing the pens.
Click theHotkeystab to view gInks default keyboard shortcuts.
Then click inside one of thePenboxes and press an alternative hotkey to set one.
