![]() Just choose the last tab of editing tools and click on the tool called ‘Border.’ Then notice the setting for ‘Caption Height’ (see member tutorial video: Installing Picasa 3.9 and a Look at Borders) What we want is a border where you can place the text all by itself. The problem is that it stamps it right on the picture! Unless the picture includes a nice blank area where the text can be placed, it is difficult to read. You may already know that you can use the text tool to copy the caption and stamp it right on the picture. You start with a picture that has a caption, like the one below: Meanwhile, here’s a pretty simple workaround. If you have found one, please leave a comment below! When my pictures are uploaded, they include the text of the caption, but I have yet to find a print provider that includes the ability to print that caption. If I want a print, I want it to be professional, so I use the Order Prints feature to send my pictures to Walmart, or Walgreens, or Snapfish etc. Personally, I never print with Picasa to my printer. Our member tutorial video: Add Captions to your Photos explains all about captions, another video explains printing: Printing Pictures. Picasa also makes it easy to print captions, IF you’re using Picasa to do the printing. I have a caption on every ‘keeper’ picture in my library. The easy way you can write captions using Picasa is one of my favorite features. Join Today! Posted by Chris Guld at 8:24 pm Tagged with: Cinemascope, HDRish, Picasa's Text Tool To see all of them, you need a Geeks On Tour membership. There are lots of tutorial videos on editing your pictures with Picasa’s tools. Or use it for a post on Facebook, or a greeting card sent by Send Out Cards, or the home page of your blog or website. Just keep playing until you have created a thing of beauty! Then you can use the File->Order Prints command and make a poster for your wall, or the cover for your picture book, or a t-shirt. See member video: Adding Text to Pictures Then I clicked again to enter a separate item of text for “Is a Joy Forever” and I chose white as the font color, leaving the outline at the same purple. (selecting a font among the hundred+ available was the most time-consuming part of this!) I chose a font color by clicking on the purple in the flower, and I used the same color for the font outline. I entered one line of text “a thing of beauty” and selected the AR JULIAN font. ![]() Text – it’s a good idea to save the image before adding text because the positioning is more stable then. ![]()
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