Adding Caption to Print

[brian_ellis19]

I'm making prints for a calendar (not commercial, just for friends and family),

one image per month. I'd like to add what I thought was called a "caption"

underneath each image (i.e outside the image area), giving the location of the

image (e.g. "Glacier National Park"). I've searched here and in the various

Photoshop books I own and can't seem to find anything that explains how to do

this seemingly simple task. Lots of stuff about adding text to the image itself

but I don't want to do that, I want the text underneath the image. If someone

here could explain how to do this, or point me to a source that explains it,

I'd appreciate it. I'm using CS2, Windows XP, and an Epson 3800 printer. Thanks.

[ericf1]

Probably the easiest way is to expand the canvas size and then position your text in the expanded area at the bottom.

 

Good luck.

[andre_reinders]

In general - I would use Photoshop to increase the canvas size - essentially adding a frame. Then I would type on the frame portion of the image - a text box. Kinda like this...<div></div>

[newberry]

Try Russell Brown's great free scripts: <br>http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html<br><br>One of them, Caption Maker, should easily do this.

[brian_ellis19]

Eric and Andre - Actually that's what I tried (changing canvas size). But when I then tried to type text in the expanded border using the Text tool I got no letters, I just got blanks as I typed the letters. There's probably something I don't know about using the Text tool since I never use it. Or is it possible that I'd see blanks on the monitor but the letters would show up on the print (which seems kind of strange).

 

Jim - Thanks, I'll take a look.

[richsimmons]

Make sure you're not using the Text mask tool, but the text tool itself. First you might want to create a blank layer and fill it with color, as expressed above, to create a frame, then add the text with the text tool.

[jgaines]

The text tool has it's own text color picker. Maybe you had the text color the same as the background color. I.E. no apparant text.

[louis_lelongrais]

http://www.atncentral.com/images/Mike_Frame.jpg

Since you're using CS2, you can add this action that will give you what I believe you are looking for. It works in BOTH vertical and horizontal formats. I use this one most of the time. Look around the frame section as there are others there that might do as well.....

[newberry]

Here's a link to a video showing how to use the free script Caption Maker:

 

http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/CaptionMaker_SM.mov