Preview User Guide
Preview is Mac’s default app for viewing files such as PDFs, JPEGs, PNGs, and most other image files. Preview has tools that allow you to draw shapes such as arrows, stars, and rectangles onto your image. You can even mask or magnify part of your file. This allows you to annotate your file visually. In a text box or shape, you can quickly change the color of text, the inside (fill) color, or the color of the border. Let's select the shape—the Drawing Tools appear in the ribbon, with the Format tab active. Here's the same shape after we changed the border to orange, the fill to a light green, and the text to black.
You can use the editing tools in the Markup toolbar to mark up an image file, providing feedback or pointing out something you want to remember.
If the image is on a page in a PDF file and you want to comment on only the image, you can extract the image as a separate image file. See Extract a PDF page as an image for instructions.
If you only want to comment on part of an image that you’ve opened in Preview, you can select part of it, choose Edit > Copy to copy just that part, then choose File > New from Clipboard to create a new file. You can also crop the image to remove areas that you don’t want.
Note: If you annotate an image file, you can’t edit, move, or delete the annotations after you save the image. If you think you’ll need to change annotations later, you can convert the image file to a PDF file, then add annotations to the PDF.
In the Preview app on your Mac, if the Markup toolbar isn’t showing, click the Show Markup Toolbar button .
Use the tools in the toolbar to mark up the image (or use the Touch Bar).
Tool
Description
Rectangular Selection
Use any of the following shape tools to select an area in an image and then crop, copy, or delete:
Rectangular Selection
Elliptical Selection
Lasso Selection
Smart Lasso
See Extract an image or remove a background.
Instant Alpha
Remove the background from an image.
Sketch
Sketch a shape using a single stroke.
If your drawing is recognized as a standard shape, it’s replaced by that shape; to use your drawing instead, choose it from the palette that’s shown.
Draw
Draw a shape using a single stroke. Press your finger more firmly on the trackpad to draw with a heavier, darker line.
Note: Unlike the Sketch tool, the Draw tool doesn’t recognize standard shapes.
This tool appears only on computers with a Force Touch trackpad.
Shapes
Click a shape, then drag it where you want. To resize the shape, use the blue handles. If it has green handles, use them to alter the shape.
You can zoom and highlight shapes using these tools:
Loupe : Drag the loupe to the area you want to magnify. To increase or decrease the magnification, drag the green handle; drag the blue handle to change the loupe size.
Highlight : Drag the highlight where you want. To resize it, use the blue handles.
See Rotate and modify shapes added to a PDF for more options.
Text
Type your text, then drag the text box where you want.
Sign
If signatures are listed, click one, then drag it where you want. To resize it, use the blue handles.
To create a new signature:
Using your trackpad: Click Trackpad, click the text as prompted, sign your name on the trackpad using your finger, then click Done. If you don’t like the results, click Clear, then try again.
If your trackpad supports it, press your finger more firmly on the trackpad to sign with a heavier, darker line.
Using your computer’s built-in camera: Click Camera. Hold your signature (on white paper) facing the camera so that your signature is level with the blue line in the window. When your signature appears in the window, click Done. If you don’t like the results, click Clear, then try again.
Using your iOS or iPadOS device: Click iPhone or iPad. On your iPhone or iPad, sign your name using your finger or Apple Pencil. When your signature appears in the window, click Done. If you don’t like the results, click Clear, then try again.
Your devices must meet Continuity system requirements. See the Apple Support article System requirements for Continuity on Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch.
See Fill out a PDF form.
Adjust color
Change values for an image’s exposure, contrast, saturation, tint, and more.
To have the values automatically adjusted, click Auto Levels. To return to the original values, click Reset All.
Adjust size
Change an image’s size and resolution.
Shape Style
Change the thickness and type of lines used in a shape, and add a shadow.
Border Color
Change the color of the lines used in a shape.
Fill Color
Change the color that’s used inside a shape.
Text Style
Change the font or the font style and color.
Annotate
Annotate the item by sketching or drawing on it using your nearby iPhone or iPad. The Annotate tool appears blue when your device is connected; to disconnect your device, click the tool again.
Your devices must meet Continuity system requirements. See the Apple Support article System requirements for Continuity on Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch.
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Drawing and sketching apps use onscreen tools, so there is no getting around that.
If you want to draw and sketch more freehand-like, you will need to purchase a drawing/painting/sketching app, as one example Autodesk SketchBook Pro, and you would need to purchase some sort of external USB drawing tablet/stylus combo like these made by Wacom.
There are other drawing/painting/sketching apps in the Mac App Store.that you may find a better fit for you.
I do not know your budget or skills, but Wacom has a wide range of drawing tablet/stylus combinations for every budget
Generally, the larger the tablet drawing area the more more it feels like you are drawing on paper to the screen as the active drawing area gets closer to the size of your computer's screen, the more freely your hand can move around on the tablet area.
You ou can find used Wacom tablets for sale on eBay, but you need to do some homwework and research to make sure the year and model of older Wacom Tablet will work on your Mac with Yosemite installled.
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I might be best just to purchase as new