What makes you happy ?

I needed to put a red rectangle around part of a screenshot earlier. That’s all I needed to do. It’s really really basic. Can I? No. GIMP and Inkscape. With neither can I do that ever-so-basic task. That is no reflection on them but on my sheer incompetence at working them. I don’t pretend to have any skills there. By contrast though I had no problems ever with Paint Shop Pro on Windows. Anyway, off I am again to try and find something.
I downloaded OmniGraffle and this is good. Damn good. Within minutes and without needed to near the M let alone R it I’m away making diagrams, doing the Yes/No paths, using colours to try and indicate steps. Gorgeous program. And this means that when I do get to the RTM bit their is less chance of an F there and more chance it’ll make sense. I went trawling the FAQ to find something I could start with but that hits 2 problems:

• It would be using images rather than text. That increases load time and when people want answers they don’t want load time. I know I don’t.
• I’d be making the task fit the tool and that’s the wrong way around. There are some formatting changes I would make there but throwing a lot of yes/no into it wouldn’t help. Colour might though.

So it’s a really nice program but I can’t see a long-term use for it. That said it probably could have uses and playing brings some level of skill in using it so it’s going on my list on “What to buy when I can”.
And that still leaves me unable to draw nice rectangles so that remains the task to complete.