Add arrows, text, shapes and icons
Pick a tool from the bar under the picture, then click or drag on it: text, an arrow, a rectangle, an ellipse or a star, a numbered step, an icon or an image.
Mac appChrome
Where to find it
- Screenshot editor
- Tools
- 1Pick a tool on the bar under the picture, or press its key.
- 2Click or drag on the picture.The tool places one thing, then goes back to Select.
- 3Change it in the column: its words, colour, size and style.
- Select V
- Pick, move and resize what is on the picture.
- Text T
- Words with the typeface, weight and alignment you choose, on an optional plate.
- Arrow A
- Straight or bent, with a head and a tail of your choice.
- Shape S
- A rectangle, an ellipse or a star. The Shape button offers all three and remembers the last one you used.
- Step N
- A numbered badge. See Numbered steps.
- Icon I
- A small symbol.
- Blur R
- Blur or pixelate part of the picture. See Blur or cover part of a screenshot.
- Image
- Places a picture of your own: a logo, a cutout or a watermark.
- Crop C
- Opens the crop. See Crop a screenshot.
On the picture in Simple lists everything you added. Take everything off the picture removes it all, and ⌘Z puts it back.
Read next
Numbered steps on a screenshotDrop numbered badges on the parts that matter. When you reorder them, the numbers follow, so you never renumber by hand.Blur or cover part of a screenshotUse the Blur tool to blur, pixelate or cover anything private. It works on the finished picture underneath, so a cover never gives away what it hides.Layers: reorder, hide, lock and renameLayers lists everything on the picture, top first. Reorder with ⌘] and ⌘[, duplicate, rename, hide or lock any of them.
Something not working the way this page says? See Troubleshooting, or start from Getting started.