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Screen Zoom - Drawing Tools

While Static Zoom is active, you can draw on the frozen, zoomed image. Drawing is not available in Live Zoom. To start Static Zoom, press Ctrl + Shift + Z; see Screen Zoom.

You choose what to draw with the mouse and keyboard. There is no toolbar.

Draw shapes

Section titled “Draw shapes”

Hold the left mouse button and drag. Hold a modifier key while you start dragging to choose the shape:

Input Draws
Drag Freehand line
Shift + drag Straight line
Ctrl + drag Rectangle outline
Ctrl + Shift + drag Arrow

Change the pen

Section titled “Change the pen”

The pen starts red, with the width set by Default Pen Width on the Screen Zoom page (default 5).

Input Result
R, G, B, O, Y, P Red, green, blue, orange, yellow, or pink pen
Shift + a color key Semi-transparent highlighter in that color
Ctrl + scroll wheel Thicker or thinner pen (1 to 50)

Use the highlighter to mark text or code without hiding it.

Add text

Section titled “Add text”
  1. Point at where the text should start and press T.
  2. Type the text. Backspace deletes the last character.
  3. Press Escape to finish. To start new text somewhere else, click there instead.

Blur, undo, and erase

Section titled “Blur, undo, and erase”
Input Result
X Blurs a small area around the cursor, for example to hide private data
Ctrl + Z Undoes the last drawing step (up to 32 steps)
E Erases all drawings