The Easiest Way To Add Text In iPhoto

It would be nice to see this kind of feature in iPhoto.

Have you tried Skitch? Just drag your photo from iPhoto onto the Skitch icon and add text or graphics real easy.

The nice thing is that Skitch is now FREE from the Appstore!

Have fun!

Yes there is.

The older version used to allow you to add text right underneath the photo. In the newer version here is the simple method I have found.

When selecting the photo, select the i for information in the right lower corner of the photo and type in the area where the image number is ex: IMG_0319 what you want for the text.

Then when you go to print, select Contact Sheet and there you can choose how large the photo is and how large the font is.

The text doesn't show up when you are viewing your photos though like it used to.

This seems much harder than how the old version was. Good Luck.

Not much one for reading the thread are we...

See this bit in your instructions:

Once on the des top look up at the top of your screen for the menu bar again for the "TOOLS" menu.

Now look to the left a bit. What app are you in now? Preview by any chance?

So, no you can't add text to a photo in iPhoto, but you can in Preview.

Ronw52 your suggestion sounded the best. I did it, it seemed to work but the picture remains unedited back in iphoto. Photoshope Elements6 saved it, even asked permission to overwrite. But nothing happens? Got any thoughts?

OSX 10.7.5

Haha. I was reading this thread and thought the same thing. I love it when these elitist nerds chime in with their know-it-all nonsense. Neil asked a reasonable question, and one that many of us have asked as well.

Perhaps someone can also answer why Apple got rid of iDVD?

Thank you Neil, I agree it's pretty ridiculous that photos can't be edited in iPhoto, particularly with all those other editing features.

I'm sorry that people like Terence take the time to respond - people who should keep their thoughts to themselves.....people who use their own insecurities as a path to an excuse for sarcastic ranting that helps no one.

Your post was helpful!

While I'm at it, I used preview to add text to an image, for a flyer. After printing it out, the font is dim and too thin. I've tried typing the text into Open Office and Text Edit, Bolding it, and then pasting it in, but the Bold doesn't hold. (poem) And there seems to be no way to make it bold within Preview - am I missing something?

Thanks again,

T

And there seems to be no way to make it bold within Preview - am I missing something?

For more control over fonts and styles try the BorderFX plug-in for iPhoto. It will let you place text annotations, like titles, keywords, dates, or watermarks ono the photo or a custom border.

See:

BorderFX - iBorderFX iPhoto

can you please help me understand how to add this feature also in the desktop version of Photos? I'm in the preferences, looking under general and can't seem to find any way to make this a "right-click" feature from the thumbnail view of photos ...

- sorry if there's another thread already explaining this! 😊

You answered my question very well, I just need something on the fly, to send markers on medical photos.

I too have the big bungling Photoshop, but what you are suggesting makes perfect sense to me. A Simple insertion

of available characters/text certainly would seem to be just the ticket.

Especially when you are very pressed for time and need to send medical info in dire situations, which require

simple words or med. symbols to designate sites on photo.

Just ignore the ponce behind the curtain, he's really not trying to help.

CK

Once you set up Preview as an external editor for iPhoto, iPhoto's edit (you might need to control+click and choose Edit in External Editor) automatically opens the photo in Preview and saves directly back to iPhoto without manually importing and exporting.

This correct for iPhoto.

Perhaps Terence hasn't figured that part out yet either, since he thinks that manual export/import is correct.

Oh but it is in the new Photos.app, which is what is what janicke73 was asking about. Or didn't you read the thread?

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.

1. It has not replaced iPhoto. It has stopped developing it. It has released a new app. Both apps work and exists side by side.

2. The new app is certainly less capable in some areas but vastly enhanced in others - better editing tools for a start, the iCloud Photo Library, syncing across devices and so on are very significant advantages. So, it's by no means less functional than iPhoto, just less so in some areas and much more so in others/

3. As for adding text: none of these apps are composting apps, they never claimed to be, they don't do layers. If you want compositing, go use another app. There are lots of ways to composite with Apple apps - Preview, Pages and so on. But these are Photo applications, not graphic layout ones. I don't expect that they will ever add compositing to these apps. It's not what they are for.

4. As for the external editor option, that's in the next version, to be released with 10.11, under a somewhat different guise using extensions - heck a 3rd party developer may even develop an extension that allows compositing and text layering.

I thought software was supposed to progress forwards, not backwards, but its obvious with every update that Apple hasn't thought that way for years now and continue to make nonsensical changes to their OS, their Applications and their hardware.

And it certainly does progress - though not always in the way you or I might expect or even desire. The ability to shoot on an device, edit on another and view on a 3rd pretty much instantly is really quite impressive. Try it.Take a shot with a phone, edit it on the phone and then check it out on your Mac. There's the edited version. Tweak it on your Mac, and now i's on your phone. That's progress. I frequently see the charge of 'nonsensical changes' but often find that when looked at closely it's more a case of misunderstanding...

1) Of course Photos has replaced iPhoto. It won't be long until iPhoto no longer runs on your computer and Photos will.

No it hasn't. Both apps run on your computer and they won't stop unless you upgrade your OS at some point in the future. iPhoto will run on every version of 10.10. It is also, if reports are to be believed, running on 10.11 betas. There is no replacement. Photos is no more a replacement of iPhoto than Pages is for Apple Works. They are different apps with different ambitions. What's happened is that Apple have seen a demand for a system that works across the ecosystem - remember most Apple users are now mobile users, not Mac owners - and that's the market Photos is designed to respond to.

2) Yes, the new Photos application adds new great features, but if it's at the cost of losing existing features then it's not really progression unless the old features were useless or replaced with an improved system.

Again, you're basing that on two incorrect assumptions: one that Photos replaces iPhoto and it doesn't, and two that the app has the same ambitions as iPhoto. Again, exactly zero features have been lost from iPhoto. It continues to run.

3) I love how you keep defending Apple's choice not to add captions/annotations to their Photo apps as if that's a ridiculous idea for a photo management application with editing features.

I'm not defending Apple or anything they do. But I do take the time to explain that compositing and page layout are not the same as photo editing. There re apps that do both, there are apps that don't. Oddly, if you look at all the major apps in the iPhoto space - like iPhoto, Photos, Aperture, Lightroom, Capture One et al none of them have the ability to add text to a shot. What does that tell you? Perhaps that you're barking up the wrong tree?

4) The third party developer add-ons is indeed the best part of the new Photos application and I'll bet annotation will be in the first 5 developments and I'll also bet it will be the #1 downloaded plugin. Somewhere

Well time will tell, but I'm not so sure. I'm on this forum a lot. You might be surprised at how rarely this question comes up.