Highlighting portions of a photo

[jeffg]

This seems to me to be a very simple feature, but I can't see how to do it. I want to draw rectangles (like cropping boxes) around parts of a photo, but instead of cropping I want to highlight the box border (transparent yellow ideally) without cropping.

I want to use this feature for highlighting small parts of a photographed newspaper page. In other words, I want to retain the whole page but have 3 or 4 boxes that will direct the eye to the relevant parts of the page.

Is there a way to do this? Thanks.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

You can apply an image effect like Sepia or negative to the selected area from the Image Effects dialogue.

[jazzman]

Jeffg, you could copy the desired area to a second IV instance (keep the original selection in the first IV window), apply a filter that creates frames, e.g. AAA Options (I'm sure there are others too) and then paste it back in the original selection.

[jeffg]

Thanks to both of you for the great tips.