brian_ellis19 Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericf1 Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 Probably the easiest way is to expand the canvas size and then position your text in the expanded area at the bottom. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andre_reinders Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 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> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newberry Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian_ellis19 Posted November 26, 2007 Author Share Posted November 26, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richsimmons Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgaines Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louis_lelongrais Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 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..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newberry Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Here's a link to a video showing how to use the free script Caption Maker: http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/CaptionMaker_SM.mov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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