Flameshot: Option to load existing image and edit it.

[deragon]

Flameshot does not allow loading of existing files like Shutter does. It should allow to load an existing image so annotations can be added later, easily. Please add a File / Snapshot - Open - Save - Save as menu.

[mbirth]

Please also let us load from clipboard in case we forgot to mark/blur something.

[Migliutin]

Please add corresponding terminal commands as well, thus allowing to integrate Flameshot within external tools (e.g. clipboard managers).

[lupoDharkael]

I've been secretly working on this feature but it still needs some work.
As you can see the CaptureWidget receives a bool "fullscreen" and when you set that value to false it creates an instance in window mode as it is required by this feature request.
https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot/blob/415b059fb248eec4b4ee3be85a1594ce99bfce67/src/widgets/capture/capturewidget.cpp#L52

I'm sure the next version of Flameshot will have a mode to use it as an image editor.

[RB3rg]

I can't wait on this;
Shutter was removed from Ubuntu 19.04, yeah, I know we can install from 3rd repo but it will be dead soon.
Need a replacement urgently.
Great tool. Thanks.

[kramer65]

May I ask whether this feature is still in the works? I'm finding myself needing this almost every week. As a workaround I currently open the image and take a screenshot of the image to annotate it. It works, but it would be great if flameshot could do this.. :-)

[infroger]

Really missing this feature. Shutter still unbeatable because you can easily edit images later.

[zaidrpm]

Any Updates? I am eagerly waiting for this feature. It will be very useful for students making notes on their pc's as flameshot has got best annotation tools on linux. It would be great if you can set option to "darken only" for brush as it is very useful to highlight text.

[pierluigiferrari]

Any updates? I'm also waiting on this feature :)

[GrantEdwards]

I just installed flameshot hoping to use it to annotate some existing image files. I guess I'll have to try shutter, even though it's going to require 50+ other packages be installed as dependencies.

[lkrms]

This will be a great feature when it lands -- Flameshot's annotation tools are basically perfect -- but in the meantime, the best stop-gap I've been able to find is nomacs. Its most recent update includes a "Paint on Image" feature with similar tools, including arrowheads that look the same as Flameshot's.

[GrantEdwards]

Thanks for the pointer to nomacs. It looks like an excellent option as it only requires 2 new libraries instead of shutter's 50+. Now I just have to wait for v3.14 to get into Gentoo Linux. :/

[lkrms]

@GrantEdwards there's always the build from source option :)

[GrantEdwards]

On Gentoo Linux everything is built from source! The latest Gentoo "ebuild" file (which is sort of like a top level "makefile" that includes all of the library dependencies and configuration options along with patches and build script) is for 3.12. I may try updating the ebuild it to build 3.14, but that would only work if 3.14 doesn't require newer versions of libraries than are currently installed.

[dindom999]

Expecting this great feature!