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Adding Text Picture in iPhoto

use Preview on your mac

I use the PREVIEW app on my mac to annotate my pictures with text. works fine.
export pic to desktop, double click on the pic to open in preview, click TOOLS, ANNOTATE, ADD TEXT.
there is a text box button at the bottom left of the screen... knock yourself out!
 
Velo-Guy said:
Ok.....someone please tell me that I can take a picture from my iPhoto library and add text to it and call it good. I don't know if I'm over thinking this or just failing to see where that option is but I would hope and pray that a program like that would have the foresight to have a "add text to photo" option.

Thanks,
SV:confused:
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You've probably already solved this problem by now, but Paint Brush is a very simple editing software. It's a long way from Photoshop, but it's free. It's a lot like MS Paint. Paint Brush
 
adamham said:
I use the PREVIEW app on my mac to annotate my pictures with text. works fine.
export pic to desktop, double click on the pic to open in preview, click TOOLS, ANNOTATE, ADD TEXT.
there is a text box button at the bottom left of the screen... knock yourself out!
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I am trying to do the Annotate function in Preview but it's not working. I've exported the photo from iPhoto to my desktop; double clicked; I went to Tools; tried to select Annotate but Move Tool was check marked. I wasn't able to remove the check mark next to Move Tool. When I tried clicking on Annotate, only grayed choices showed: they were add oval, or rectangle, note or link. Help! What am I doing wrong?
 
renman13 said:
I am trying to do the Annotate function in Preview but it's not working. I've exported the photo from iPhoto to my desktop; double clicked; I went to Tools; tried to select Annotate but Move Tool was check marked. I wasn't able to remove the check mark next to Move Tool. When I tried clicking on Annotate, only grayed choices showed: they were add oval, or rectangle, note or link. Help! What am I doing wrong?
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If you are using a OS X before Leopard you can't annotate a photo from the Tool menu, you can only annotate PDF's from the menu. To annotate images you need to add the Annotate button to the tool bar by going to View > Customize Tool Bar and drag the Annotate icon up to the tool bar.
 
Watermark photos using Iphoto

I'm using Iphoto '11. Based on what I read especially referring to using preview, here's how I do it.
Open preferences and choose Preview under the Advanced tab>Edit Photos:>Iphoto or other. choose other and it will direct you to choose an application. If you have an app already chosen, just highlight it again and it directs you over to choose an app.Choose Preview.
close preferences window.
In Iphoto right click an image and a contextual menu will pop up, select external editor, this will shoot you to preview. In Iphoto '11 a duplicate image is created in Iphoto that you see look back at Iphoto and you'll see it. That's the photo that gets modified (very cool). Back to Preview, there's the photo opened up. Select annotate– Tools>annotate>add text (control-command-T).
The cool part is that all you have to do is save your changes and Iphoto updates the duplicate, Preview won't ask for a save path saving you file conflicts. That's it. I think all previous Iphoto versions can do this.
 
Grasher said:
This is completely off topic but am I the only one wondering what the guy in the corner of your sample photo is doing? He appears to be answering quite a substantial call of nature...
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ROFL!! Hands up anyone who didn't go back to have a look. :eek:
 
quick and easy

drag the photo to Powerpoint, edit, effects and whatever, save file a JPEG et voila....:cool:
 
Dmachanic said:
I'm using Iphoto '11. Based on what I read especially referring to using preview, here's how I do it.
Open preferences and choose Preview under the Advanced tab>Edit Photos:>Iphoto or other. choose other and it will direct you to choose an application. If you have an app already chosen, just highlight it again and it directs you over to choose an app.Choose Preview.
close preferences window.
In Iphoto right click an image and a contextual menu will pop up, select external editor, this will shoot you to preview. In Iphoto '11 a duplicate image is created in Iphoto that you see look back at Iphoto and you'll see it. That's the photo that gets modified (very cool). Back to Preview, there's the photo opened up. Select annotate– Tools>annotate>add text (control-command-T).
The cool part is that all you have to do is save your changes and Iphoto updates the duplicate, Preview won't ask for a save path saving you file conflicts. That's it. I think all previous Iphoto versions can do this.
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Brilliant, Dmachanic! Have adopted this approach for quick annotations

(Shame I didn't read to the end of all the posts before writing my post :( )
 
why I would want texting ability in iPhoto

I have a relative with Alzheimer's and would love to be able to add text to his photo library. That way as the screen saver pulls up his library, he would see a simple text 'memory jog'.

I consider myself a higher mac user, while using iphoto/aperture for organization, I still need other programs for more controls and even text. But this seems like an Apple no-brainer; an intuitive way to label or watermark photos in a quick manner by folder or name or whatever.
 
Try this

Velo-Guy said:
Ok.....someone please tell me that I can take a picture from my iPhoto library and add text to it and call it good. I don't know if I'm over thinking this or just failing to see where that option is but I would hope and pray that a program like that would have the foresight to have a "add text to photo" option.

Thanks,
SV:confused:
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http://www.iborderfx.com/iborderfx/ - Free plugin ...ENJOY
 
iphoto '08

PirateRose said:
Looks like a really good plugin, however I'm still using iPhoto '08 and that requires at least '09. Any suggestions for a free software or plugin or app or something that will add a watermark or logo to a pic that only requires iPhoto '08?
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Nice to know I'm not the only one still using iphoto '08 limp along. I had no luck with the GIMP app, so I used dataminn 's advice in post #17.

It took some trials, but by draging photos to word, adding a text box, using Grab to Capture image, save as a tiff, importing back to iphoto worked for me. I would love a simpler way, but us with old tech will just have to make do.
 
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