Advanced screen drawing tools?

Richmilnix

New Member
Wondering how I can get my hands on some screen drawing tools to draw more-attractive layouts for our video rebroadcasting. Specifically:
  • Stroke
  • Drop shadow
  • Align / guides / snap
Basically looking for the rudimentary Adobe-style tools. Maybe add-ons, or are there people authoring custom builds of OBS for special purpose? We're using it to matte Zoom participants into livestream layouts.
 

Reaby

Member
If i understand your right: "I want absolutely everything for free, even adobe has great tools but i'm not going to subscribe their services."
Even this is not directly OBS related question... Maybe you can try Inkscape which has all of those and even more, its free.
 

Richmilnix

New Member
What? No, you don't understand mer right. You chose to interpret what I wrote and you did it wrong.
When I asked whether people were authoring custom builds, it was because I was hoping I could pay someone for a version of OBS with these layout tools incorporated.
When I'm doing screen draws, I spend a lot of time trying to resize & align screen excerpts, and often still end up a few pixels off. I'm fishing around looking for add-ons or forks to facilitate that, while gaining ease and precision.

Does anybody have suggestions that are more constructive than Reaby's?



Even this is not directly OBS related question...

Yes, it is.
 
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I may be off the mark but following linked software may suit your needs.


Also, here's a workaround that may be more flexible since you can use any preferred drawing software:

 
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Reaby

Member
What? No, you don't understand mer right. You chose to interpret what I wrote and you did it wrong.
Does anybody have suggestions that are more constructive than Reaby's?

Alright, I got it apparently wrong. English not my first language anyway.
Hopefully someone has better solution available :)
Well, my intention is write and help here from time to time, but seems like I failed to understand you.
 

FerretBomb

Active Member
What Volfield is guiding you toward is known as a 'telestrator'... in sporting events, it's used to draw directly on freezeframes to illustrate upcoming action, most commonly. It doesn't sound like this is what you're looking for though.

Generally for layouts, people tend to just create PNG images in outside image editing/illustration software, then add them to OBS as Image Sources. OBS supports transparency, so it isn't uncommon to have a foreground image, the camera (with chromakey usually), then a background image. Same with full-frame layouts, containing alpha transparency 'windows' that you can place sources behind. Any image editor that can export PNG with alpha transparency maintained can be used to create these. Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP, Inkscape, whatever.
Some sites do sell overlay packs with these images ready-for-use, but few are aimed at the professional space; most companies tend to have a staff artist on-hire who can whip up something like that very quickly.

Generally as far as setting up a reusable layout goes, it's a bit more complicated in OBS and no, as far as I'm aware no one is making custom versions of OBS for that.
Most commonly you add your placeholder captures, then for each one right-click in the Sources list, go to Transforms->Edit Transform, and set a Bounding Box, and the scaling method to use. This ensures that each capture will stay in its spot and not resize, even if the captured content is switched to a source of a different resolution.

Beyond that, you'd need to be more specific about what part you're having trouble with; the graphical image element, getting your participants' feeds into the scene and placed, etc?
 
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