Overlay for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By Quincy.cs

  Thank you!

  Worth my purchase. Please add "Paste" as another functionality of opening an image. I frequently have an image in my clipboard that I'd like to open in this app.

  
  
• By Guestfyg

  Neat app!

  Needed to overlay some content while doing design work and this is just what I was looking for. Some suggestions for improvements: 1.) Would love to be able to set the color of the frame's outer edge. Right now the bright green and red colors are distracting. In particular, it'd be great if we could set the outer edge to be transparent. 2.) Would be great to be able to resize the frame of the window to whatever size I want. Right now there's a minimum height and width, but being able to make that smaller would make the tool more flexible. Thanks!

  
  
• By Gas Creature

  A super app at a super price

  This programmer really knows his/her chops. The program has ALL the features that you need from an image overlay tool. To the reviewer who labeled this a "Mostly pointless app", all I can say is, I'm sorry you misunderstood what you were buying; no, this is not a drawing nor annotating program. To help out other shoppers, let me explain how you use this program. Let's say you want to sketch your dog in a sketching program. You use your smartphone to take a picture of your dog and transfer the image file to your computer. Then your run this program. It has an empty window. From your file mananger (Finder), drag the picture file into the empty window using the mouse. Now, the dog is displayed. You then rotate and resize the image to your need to match the drawing tool (another program) that you're using. Then you move this picture program window over the drawing tool window, and click the "Lock Overlay" button. Finally, you start drawing your dog in your drawing program. Your picture floats ABOVE your drawing in a semi-transparent way. When you draw, you now have a way to make sure the drawing matches the photo. YAY! I do have two wishes: (1) It would be super-duper if you can run multiple instances of this program. In other words, several windows with several overlay images at the same time. For what I do, CAD, I actually need this feature. (2) It would be extremely helpful to be able to save the settings for a particular image. At the very least, if I can save the zoom and rotation so that when that particular image is loaded again, it looks like before, that would save a lot of time. Also, the Jiulong Zhao Web Site and Overlay Support are blocked in my browser because these try to compose an email when loaded. That is a security risk. The web pages there need to be changed: don't try to compose an email in html/javascript.

  
  
• By J.Y.

  So close, just needs ability to control scale/size of overlay image

  I thought this was exactly what I was looking for. However, the key feature it is lacking is the ability to set the scale of the image you are overlaying. For example, if I’m testing an iPhone image that’s done at 2x, It would be very helpful to be able to set the source overlay image to display at 50% of its original size - in order to overlay on top of a 1x target environment. Also, it would be helpful to converslely be able to say ‘view at original size (aka 100%). Any plans to add this level of control on the overlay image size?

  
  

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