Feature Request: Photo underlay

[ajrichardson]

Hi-

In my experience it's very common for people, often as a team, to quickly hash out a rough schedule on a whiteboard before doing it in an application. What I'd love to see is a way to use a digital photo of that whiteboard as an underlay in OP. You'd need to be able to ghost it out and resize it to roughly match the bar sizes of OP. A sample picture is attached:

http://richardsona.squarespace.com/storage/omniplan/underlay.jpg

Adam

[gumby]

When I read your title I thought it would turn out to be some lame-o "skin" idea, but that is brilliant!

I would use this feature to put a "watermark" on the project (not just the printed one) like "Provisional" or "Phase II" or something like that.

[marc]

Our teams sometimes brainstorm like this, and even if the plans aren't precise, it can be a handy reminder -- just like an underlay for graphic/web design.

Both of these are good reasons, and you could add simple ergonomics, like changing the background colour/image for viewing comfort and contrast with Gantt bar colours.

You might even put project info on a background image, logos, code names etc. to further distinguish projects... there's quite a bit of 'lightweight' utility in there, if you think about it.

...this would be a fairly unique feature, and it just feels like an Omni-kinda thing to to. :)