# Quick start
## **Create an account and start exploring AnnoStation**
1. Visit our website. [**Sign up**](https://annostation.com/users/sign_up) to create a new account and try it out for free with a 30-day trial.
* Once you're ready, you will be sent a verification email.
2. Verify your email address.
3. [**Log In**](https://annostation.com/users/sign_in) to AnnoStation.
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All trial accounts get thirty days free, no credit card required.
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### **Invite members to your Organization**
The best way to get the most out of AnnoStation is by inviting members to your Organization. Define their roles and put someone in charge of administrating your Organization and Projects.
**Get more information on Organization and how to invite:**
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[Organization](/mastering-annostation/organization.md)
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#### **You've been invited to join an Organization?**
If you received an email to join someone's organization, you can start collaborating with the team you've just been invited to. Make sure you are signed in with the right account before joining the organization.
## **Annotate an image**
### Create a new Project
You can start testing AnnoStation by creating a new Project. For each Project, you can import images and set up different annotation labels.
**Get more information on how to set up a Project:**
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[Setting up a Project](/mastering-annostation/projectsetup.md)
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Don't see a button to create a new Project? You need to be an owner of an Organization to create a new Project.
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**Learn about the permission of members:**
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[Project member roles](/mastering-annostation/projectsetup/project-members/project-member-roles.md)
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### Import images
You can import images to your Project from your local directory or connect to images stored in the external data source such as amazon S3 or Google Drive.
**You can read more about importing images and connecting to external data here:**
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[Adding datasets](/mastering-annostation/projectsetup/data-set.md)
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[Connecting to external data](/mastering-annostation/projectsetup/data-set/connecting-to-external-data.md)
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### **Start annotation**
Open an image to start annotating target objects. Select the desired label from a list of labels defined for the Project. Depending on if the label is vector or segmentation, you can use a different set of tools to annotate an object.
**If you want to get more details on annotation features you can have a look here:**
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[Annotating an image](/mastering-annostation/annotating.md)
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You can use keyboard shortcut keys to quickly switch between tools.
**You can see all the supported keyboard shortcut keys here:**
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[Keyboard shortcuts](/resources/shortcut.md)
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### **Submit for Review**
Once you are done with annotating all objects in the image, you can submit it for review. This will change the status of the image so that reviewers can easily know which images require review.
**You can learn more about workflow here:**
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[Workflow and status management](/mastering-annostation/workflow-and-status-management.md)
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## **Collaboration**
AnnoStation is designed to support collaboration for optimal productivity.
### **Comments and review**
Leave comments at the precise location with detailed instructions so that annotators know exactly what needs to be fixed.
**If you want to get more details on review features you can have a look here:**
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[Reviewing annotation](/mastering-annostation/review.md)
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### **Assign annotators to specific images**
Annotators can jump onto any image that is not yet started or you can assign specific images to each annotator for better traceability. It is possible to automatically distribute images among multiple annotators or cherrypick specific images for a member.
**You can read more about assignment features in here:**
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[Assigning annotators](/mastering-annostation/projectsetup/assigning-annotators.md)
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### **Collaborating with external Organizations**
You may need to work with external partners for some Projects. You can invite external Organizations to your Project so that members from the external Organization can start accessing your Project.
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You can always invite your external partners directly to your Organization as well. This is easier if you know exactly whom you need to invite, otherwise collaboration allows you to skip managing members of the external Organization.
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Learn more about collaborating with external Organizations here:
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[Sharing Projects with external Organization](/mastering-annostation/collaboration/collaborating-with-external-organization.md)
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