Simenu Wu has updated his freeware image annotator iPhotoDraw with a stack of essential new features.

There’s now a very complete set of line drawing tools – with/ without arrow, horizontal/ vertical elbow, polyline, Bezier, spline, freehand – and every aspect of a line’s arrowhead can now be customised: size, alignment, rotation, fill/ colour, thickness, opacity and more.

Whatever vector shape you draw can be transformed, resized and rotated afterwards by dragging on its various control points.

New letter and number stamps add the appropriate sequence of text buttons (A, B, C… or 1, 2, 3…) as you click.

Some drawing apps only let you tweak arrowhead size. IPhotoDraw goes further. A LOT further.

The Screen Capture tool is moving beyond its simple beginnings to become a useful stand-alone tool. You’re now able to run it with global hotkeys, capture windows, apply a watermark, capture directly to a file, and more.

Configurable support for “external applications” makes it easier to send an image to another editor for further processing.

There’s also a simple Batch Image Conversion tool, and a few useful program management extras (“check for updates”, import/ export application settings).

Put it all together and iPhotoDraw 2.0 is a great update, still free for personal and commercial use, and available for Windows XP and up.