Caption / text...

Other than using PowerPoint, does anyone know of a "simple" program that will allow me to add caption info to an image, but not over the image, either above or below the image, like a header or footer?

Reno, there are a few ways that come to mind, but if you want it to remain a Psd-Jpeg-Tiff you can just add some canvas area to the image and type away on it. Although the example I've posted has canvas all around it from a scaled down print, you can just add canvas to one side and add the information without touching the image face itself. Maybe a bit hard to see here, but the type is all at the bottom area.

Paul's idea will work nicely. If this is a jpeg for web display, you'll need to choose a canvas color that matches the web page background color. Otherwise, you will see the canvas/image background overlayed on the page background.

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Thanks Paul/Preston, I've done the canvas move before but was looking for something a little simpler. A friend of mine volunteers for a fire department museum and handles all the pics for them, he's looking for an easy way to put captions to the pics w/o using PP; he's not into PS or high-end photo programs. I tried ACDsee but that didn't work. He wants to make CD's available and have the caption info with the pics.

Reno, if he does not need big files as an image, you can always import them into a Word or Publisher document and adjust the size by just clicking on it and pulling the image at any corner. Once sized you can type the info right below it in either document. Anyone who uses Word should be able to work through that without too much trouble. I cannot recall what the file size constraints are, but they are a decent size IMO. I have used MS Publisher for that task for years, but Word should do just fine as well. I've even imported into Excel in the early days making up catalogs of sorts. Once burned to a CD you can just click on the icon labels. You could add several images to each page or one per page on a larger scale. I just read Preston's message below this one, Power Point is the best choice for what he is trying to do.

Why not Power Point? He could do what he wants to very easily with it. After creating his PP slides, he could create a Power Point Show that includes the Power Point Viewer and then burn the show to CD.

I cannot think of another app that would be suitable, at the moment.

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