I was about to say 'draw a shape with a toolbar button'... but after looking at historical Photoshop toolboxes, it doesn't appear to have had that feature eithe

I was about to say 'draw a shape with a toolbar button'... but after looking at historical Photoshop toolboxes, it doesn't appear to have had that feature either. :-) (Pixelmator, however, does...) I almost hate to write what I'm about to write, but... When I needed to add some text and labeling to an image, it was easiest just to drop the $30 on a Pixelmator license. For dealing with RAW photos from a handful of cameras, it was $120 on a license for Adobe Lightroom. Both have generally served their purposes well. Some of those features I could've implemented myself, but some I couldn't, and none of that work fits into a schedule full of other obligations. (Technical and otherwise.) I think the difficulty with open source end user app development is that it can ask a burden of its community that few people have the skills to bear up to and even fewer have the time or inclination to do so. From my point of view, this leaves me with a combination of gratitude for the people like yourself that actually do step up, but also a degree of frustration that there's no easy way to make the situation better. At the end of the day, I think the strength of OSS application software is that, by virtue of being OSS, it's possible for it to be things that closed software cannot.