Skitch

Skitch is an image annotation app from Evernote available for iOS and Android that lets you mark up any image and export it to various other apps and locations. You can annotate with shapes, text, arrows, pen and highlighter, stamps, emoticons, and pixelation. From the Skitch website: "Skitch provides you with all the tools you need to visually communicate ideas, share feedback and collaborate with friends and co-workers. With Skitch on your mobile device, you can focus on what’s important in an image or PDF, mark it up with your thoughts, and pass it on."

Getting Started with Skitch Uses for Music Class Resources
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Getting Started with Skitch

 * 1) Pick the image you would like to annotate. You can choose from you device photo album, snapping a new photo with your device camera, a map of your current location or a specific address, a web page (turn on the Skitch Extension, directions below), a PDF (open from within the PDF reader app), or draw a new image from a blank page.
 * 2) Choose the size and color of your annotations on the left and choose your tools on the right. From the top menu bar, undo changes, crop the size of the picture, click the three dots to clear all annotations or rotate the image, and finally share the completed image and annotations.
 * 3) Colors: choose the color from the vertical axis and the thickness from the horizontal axis.
 * 4) Tools: choose between arrow, text, shapes, draw, stamp, emoticon, and pixelate. There is no limit to the number of annotations that can go onto an image. You can also edit/reshape or delete an annotation after it has been placed by tapping it on the screen. The shapes tool, draw tool, stamp tool, and emoticon tool expand to show more options.
 * 5) When you are ready to save or share your annotated image:
 * Click the share button in the top right
 * Caption your image by clicking "Caption" in the top right (optional)
 * Click "Meeting" to email the image to all members of an upcoming meeting
 * Click "Share" to export the image to Twitter, Messages, email, Facebook, or another compatible app on your device (three dots). You can also export the image as an Evernote link.
 * Click "Save" to save your image to Evernote, your device's clipboard, your device's photo album, or another compatible app on your device (three dots).
 * 1) Once you have shared your image, you are immediately given the option to edit your image, start a new image, or share it again.

To turn on the Skitch Safari extension on the iPad/iPhone to markup a webpage:
 * 1) Tap Web at the bottom
 * 2) Tap the share button
 * 3) Swipe through the actions then tap More (three dots)
 * 4) Turn Skitch on at tap Done.
 * 5) To capture an image of a web page from Safari, tap the share icon, then the Skitch icon

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Uses for Music Class

 * Mark up a picture of your class to create a seating chart
 * Mark up a picture of your desk to help a substitute
 * Mark up a picture of you holding an instrument (e.g., recorder or ukulele) to show a fingering
 * Mark up student worksheets before they work on them to point out any necessary parts
 * Mark up student work after they have turned them in to point out any errors
 * Mark up a picture of students with the pixelate tool to blur out the faces of those who do not have publicity releases
 * Mark up a map to direct parents to a concert venue
 * Mark up a PDF to make notes for yourself or others
 * Mark up a handout that was scanned in using Genius Scans to make notes for yourself or others

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Resources

 * Getting Started with Skitch guide (choose your device for customized help)

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