Part 5 Adding Titles and Text

Printing text on your photos can turn your digital snapshots into greeting cards, invitations, postcards, or posters. An interesting photo with a caption can be a news item for a community newsletter or family Website. And, even if you don’t aspire to craft your own greetings or write your own news, including captions in your picture files is a much better way of identifying and describing your photos than writing on the back of the prints.

As you gain skill working with text, you’ll want the flexibility of keeping different pieces of text on separate layers, which work like clear sheets of plastic you can draw on. Layers permit you to add text and artwork without making any permanent changes to the underlying ...

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