The Easiest Way To Add Text In iPhoto

Some Image Editors That Support layers:

Photoshop Elements 11 for Mac - $79

GraphicConverter - $40Rainbow Painter - $30
Imagerie - $38
Acorn - $50

Pixelmator - $60

Seashore - Free

GIMP for Mac - Free

Xee 2.1 - free

In my opinion PSE 11 for Mac is the best of the bunch. Gimp is very powerful but the GUI is a bit clunky.

Perhaps this will help you with the editing in PSE:

Using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.

1 - select Photoshop or Photoshop Elememts as your editor of choice in iPhoto's General Preference Section's under the "Edit photo:" menu.

2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.

3 - however, if you get the navigation window

that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.

This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..

With Photoshop Elements the Saving File preferences should be configured as shown:

I also suggest the Maximize PSD File Compatabilty be set to Always. In PSE’s General preference pane set the Color Picker to Apple as shown:

Screenshots are from PSE 10

Note 1: to switch between iPhoto and PS or PSE as the editor of choice Control (right)-click on the thumbnail and select either Edit in iPhoto or Edit in External Editor from the contextual menu. If you use iPhoto to edit more than PSE re-select iPhoto in the iPhoto General preference pane. Then iPhoto will be the default editor and you can use the contextual menu to select PSE for your editor when desired.

Note 2: editing a RAW file with either PSE or PS creates a new file which must be saved outside of iPhoto, i.e. the Desktop, and imported as a new photo into the iPhoto Library.

As already explained Photos does not have then capability yet of using a 3rd party editor from inside. You'll have to export to the Desktop, edit and import the edited version as a new image file.

Some Image Editors that support layers and text:

Photoshop Elements 11 for Mac - $79

GraphicConverter - $40Rainbow Painter - $30
Imagerie - $38
Acorn - $50

Pixelmator - $60

Seashore - Free

GIMP for Mac - Free

Xee 2.1 - free

Personally I find adding text with Preview via its annotation feature to be clumsy and slow.

Open the image with PSE and click on the Text tool in the tool bar:

Place the cursor where you want the text and being typing. You can change the font color here:

And the font type and size here:

That's it in a nutshell. For more detailed instructions go to the Adobe forms that Terence pointed you to.

AND you can use PSE from inside iPhoto as the 3rd party editor:

Using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.

1 - select Photoshop or Photoshop Elememts as your editor of choice in iPhoto's General Preference Section's under the "Edit photo:" menu.

2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.

3 - however, if you get the navigation window

that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.

This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..

With Photoshop Elements the Saving File preferences should be configured as shown:

I also suggest the Maximize PSD File Compatabilty be set to Always. In PSE’s General preference pane set the Color Picker to Apple as shown:

Screenshots are from PSE 10

Note 1: to switch between iPhoto and PS or PSE as the editor of choice Control (right)-click on the thumbnail and select either Edit in iPhoto or Edit in External Editor from the contextual menu. If you use iPhoto to edit more than PSE re-select iPhoto in the iPhoto General preference pane. Then iPhoto will be the default editor and you can use the contextual menu to select PSE for your editor when desired.

Note 2: editing a RAW file with either PSE or PS creates a new file which must be saved outside of iPhoto, i.e. the Desktop, and imported as a new photo into the iPhoto Library.

Why are you hassling nheacock, this is a support Community.?!! All you post here are argumentative.😢 Your claim is week or just wrong about iPhoto not being a photo editor. Take a look at the Apple's description of iPhoto, this is the 3 sentence of the lead paragraph.

This contradicts your sarcastic post. That is all your post was, a snipe at a helpful person. As was all the other post you made in this thread , not help but argumentative. And do me a favor take a look at a few definitions real dictionaries and read the definition of "sarcasm" and I bet you'll think again before you start clawing at people.

The digital take over of the photo industry was near instantaneous. I worked my lifetime in the field. Artistic techno-babble is changing, still, even more today.

https://www.apple.com/mac/iphoto/

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Simple but powerful editing tools let you turn good shots into magnificent ones.

love and tolerances is a good code, to strive for

Paul, happy thoughts

Unfortunately, I'm less shocked to learn that Apple has replaced iPhoto with the new Photos application that not only still has no annotation feature, but has no external editor option, so it's even less functional then iPhoto was.

Keep telling Apple what missing features you'd like restored or new features added in Photos via Apple-Photos Feedback.

The feedback is working as can be seen from the following paragraph in this Apple webpage: Apple OS X El Capitan.

Photos has been fine-tuned to make it even easier to manage your library. Now you can add a location to a single image or to an entire Moment. Naming your favorite people in Faces is faster with a streamlined workflow. You can also sort your albums — and the contents inside them — by date, title, and more.

I found these specific directions from help: They worked!

To edit photos in another application:

• Choose iPhoto > Preferences, click Advanced, and choose “In application” from the “Edit photo” pop-up menu.
• In the Open dialog, select the application you want to use to edit photos, and then click Open.
• In iPhoto, select a photo and click the Edit button.
  The photo opens in the application you selected.
• Edit the photo and save it. Don’t change the photo’s filename or file format.
  You see your changes the next time you open the photo in iPhoto.

You CAN add text to IPhoto 08. I just did it based on a Macworld.com post. Here is how to do it step by step;

• Take your photo
• drag your photo out of IPhoto onto your desktop(I have the 08 version-To see your version of IPhoto- Open IPhoto, then look at the top left corner of your Mac screen next to black Apple logo, click on "Iphoto", click on "About Iphoto" then window that pops up tells you your version in the title).
• You drag the photo by going to the photos section of IPhoto-left click on the photo once until it's highlighted with a yellow border-left click again and HOLD DOWN your left click and drag the photo to you desktop (while dragging you will see a red and green button appear.
• Once on the des top look up at the top of your screen for the menu bar again for the "TOOLS" menu.
• Scroll down for the "ANNOTATE" option and Choose TEXT
• Your cursor will now change to a + sign. put your cursor over the area of photo you want to add text to and LEFT CLICK and then DRAG your + sign left to right to open your text box.
• Once you have your rectangle text box open-You will see directly above the photo an "A" Click on the A to open your font menu to choose size/type of font. Type your font!
• You can also change the color of your font by left clicking and holding your left mouse button and scrolling over your typed (this is called highlighting your text. Then choose the color of font you want. I chose white for my text as it was easiest to see.
• Click on file and then click SAVE
• NOTE: Once your done with your text BE SURE it's all EXACTLY correct because I haven't found a way to edit my text after it's saved!

Thank you. Neil. My wife has the same problem with adding titles to her iPhoto slides shows and nominating Preview as the (external) editor in preferences has certainly solved a problem that I was trying to solve for her using the Open Office Draw program (and failing). I wish I could award you 10 points for the tip. This not only works but is easy and all my wife needs to know is how to switch back to iPhoto as an editor if she wants to crop or adjust the colours, etc.. I couldn't agree more that by iPhoto 9 this feature should have been added to allow you to mark your photo with a copyright line and/or add a title.

I will certainly be using this tip myself to add a copyright line before posting any more pics on my website or elsewhere online.

John