Ways to add names to photos, please?

[rclrocco]

Re: Ways to add names to photos, please?

Oops, couple of - line 2 !!

[rclrocco]

Re: Ways to add names to photos, please?

I thought that would be the case with Pages, Kim, i.e. caption below photo.
My first task is to add names to a coupe of old school photos, say 150 people , so those really need to be right on the person concerned. Ideally also, I'd like to be able to type in at least two different colours, say red and bright blue, so that two of us can compare notes and guesses at people's names. Just black text doesn't always show up on black and white photos.
MS paint lets me do this very easily on a PC, the dark side, by using a transparent text box, i.e. no colour fill and typing within that on a particular person, then deleting the box when happy with the position of the box.
I'm hoping that Preview can do all that as well?

[Kim]

Re: Ways to add names to photos, please?

Many thanks Kim, I'll try Preview this weekend

Just to be clear....using Preview will place the caption right on the photo.

Using Pages, which is the page layout app that comes with your Mac, will let you place a photo on a page and type the caption underneath.

You COULD create a blank jpg in any photo editing program and keep it as a template. Then open it in Preview. Open the photo you want and copy & paste it into the blank jpeg. Use the Text tool to type your caption and place it where you want it. Then crop the photo and caption and export it as a jpeg. This is the method I use to save obituary clippings I find on Newspaper Archives.

Here is an example.

[rclrocco]

Re: Ways to add names to photos, please?

Many thanks Kim, I'll try Preview this weekend

[Kim]

Re: Ways to add names to photos, please?

i have quite a few large group photos to which I would like to add the names of the people shown, and then save the named files in Reunion and send to relatives etc. I can do this with MS Paint on a PC - eek - but what's an easy way to do the same with a Mac, please /

You can use any photo editing software, but Macs come with Preview. Just open the photo and are the annotate tool to add text.

You could also use pages. Just insert the photo into a Pages document and then add a caption below.

[rclrocco]

i have quite a few large group photos to which I would like to add the names of the people shown, and then save the named files in Reunion and send to relatives etc. I can do this with MS Paint on a PC - eek - but what's an easy way to do the same with a Mac, please /