Saving ART Marks

Once the end-user of your application has created some marks, they're probably going to want to save them somewhere. Your application has 3 choices of where to save them:

Save them to a separate .ART file. Using this method, your application will have to keep track of which .ART file goes with which image file, and load them together. Use the FileExport Method or SaveAnnotations Method to do this (SaveAnnotations Method is more flexible, but requires more code).
Save the art marks as tags inside the image file. This option is only available for image file formats that support tags (non-image data). In the case of TIFF files, IGArtCtl Control does this automatically, requiring no code in your application.
"Burn In" the ART marks. This converts the ART marks from their native representation to the format of the image file, which usually destroys a lot of their functionality (for instance, once a mark is burned in to a JPEG image, it cannot be moved, resized or hidden). Use the ImageBurnIn Method to do this.

.ART files can be read by any other application developed with ImageGear. In addition, the .ART file format is supported by the Imaging for Windows application (from Kodak) supplied with Windows.