How-to: Add text to your ShowMe

I hear a lot how people are getting creative when adding text to their ShowMes and as was pointed out to me yesterday by Marko and Jim Teague, a new community member, there is a super simple easy way to do this with just your Camera Roll and Evernote, both free apps. Follow these easy steps and you’ll have super looking ShowMes in no time! These steps can actually be used for editing any image to a ShowMe, for more on that, see Marko’s post.

  1. Open up Evernote, and start typing. This can be instructions, problems to solve, or just labels. Adjust the size and font as you need.
  2. Take a screenshot of your text by clicking the Home button + Sleep button at the same time. You’ll see your screen flash, which is how you know it has taken the photo.
  3. Next, open up your Camera Roll from the Camera App and select the screenshot you’d like to edit.
  4. At the top of the screen you’ll see an Edit button, tap it and at the bottom you’ll see Crop.
  5. You can drag the image around and the corners of the selection box to select the part of text that you need. Most people decide to trim the rest of the screen and keep just the text
  6. Import the cropped image into your ShowMe the same way you would any other image.
You’re done! Good luck!
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  • Charles Bickenheuser

    The information is so incomplete. Where are files saved? What is the connection between Camera Roll and Evernote for opening files/pictures. Not fun to read and spend two hours on only to have partial answers.

  • http://twitter.com/justkika Kika Gilbert

    Hi Charles, I can help! Any time you take a screenshot the image is automatically saved to your photo library.

    In ShowMe we make it possible to insert an image from your ShowMe library so all you need to do is tap the button that looks like a picture scene with at + next to it to add to your ShowMe.

    Steps 3,4, and 5 are only applicable to you if you want to crop or edit your text image. You can feel free to ignore if that’s not what you need :)

    Please email me at kika [at] showme [dot] com if you have any more questions!

  • Firp

    Why oh why not simply add texting THAT WOULD BE NICE

  • Dawna

    For some reason, when I write on Show Me, the line is so thin. I see others’ Show Mes that have nice thick lines. What have I done wrong?

  • Dawna

    For some reason, when I write on Show Me, the line is so thin. I see others’ Show Mes that have nice thick lines. What have I done wrong?

  • http://twitter.com/justkika Kika Gilbert

    Hi Dawna,

    When we first started ShowMe, our pen tool was a bit chunkier and appeared thicker. As we’ve developed the tools we’ve refined it which makes it look thinner and smoother. Could you send me an example of what you have done and one that you think looks different at kika @ showme . com? I can see if anything was affecting your video.

    Thanks!
    Kika