I have a bunch (100's) of photos that I want to use in a slide show. I'd like to have each photo's file name (e.g., "Sarah with her dog") added to the bottom of the photo so the viewer will know what they are looking at.
Is there some automated way of doing this? The app I use the most is Photoshop Elements, but am happy to use whatever works.
Thanks in advance.
MacBook Pro (M1, 2020)
You can do it with the Photos slideshow. See this animated screenshot:
The file name stays on the slide for about 2 ½ seconds out of the time the slide is on screen. And the text stays on the slide when exported.
GraphicConverter ($40) has settings to let you display the file name with a slide show-- it's not large, though you may be able to adjust that. It also has lots of batch operations that might let you do other things you want, as well. You can copy metadata between fields, which might let you do something like a title rather than the file name.
I doubt it. You can try the demo version of GraphicConverter to see if it can do it automatically and save as video file.
In the Edit mode select Markup from this menu:
Then, as you would in Preview, select Text and add the file name to the image. There is no way to do it automatically.
If there's no way to do it automatically, do you know of an app to run the slideshow where it will display the files name of each photo as it rotates through them?
Thanks Richard I will check it out.
Interesting... but I have hundreds of slides. I wonder if Automator can help w/ this?
Add a photo's file name to the actual photo?
