How to print name etc. on photo

[konicaman]

I need to print my name/web address in the lower right corner on some photos. Photos are printed with a white border; the name should be situated on the border, not on the photo itself.

I usually print from XnView, and you can place a text on the border but only in the middle right under the photo.

Any suggestions for other viewing/printing software that can do this?

Yes, I know I can make a border and place text on it in PS, but having to do this often is rather tedious.

Any suggestion welcome.

 

[_larky]

Why not make a Photoshop Action? Or, use Mogrify with Lightroom.

 

[Jim-st]

Why not make a Photoshop Action? Or, use Mogrify with Lightroom.

Will Mogrify work in the Print module? I thought it was just an export action for jpegs and such. Would be good if you could add captions in Print, beyond the very bog-standard options LR has built in.

 

[tlitody]

I need to print my name/web address in the lower right corner on some photos. Photos are printed with a white border; the name should be situated on the border, not on the photo itself.

I usually print from XnView, and you can place a text on the border but only in the middle right under the photo.

Any suggestions for other viewing/printing software that can do this?

Yes, I know I can make a border and place text on it in PS, but having to do this often is rather tedious.

Any suggestion welcome.

Well I just tried with XnView and you can place wherever you want but you have to do it manually for every image.
A photoshop action would fully automate it so a single click would create border and place text in lower right. But if you are stuggling with xnview then you have a very steep learning curve to get to grips with how to create an action that will actually do it with photoshop reliably and at the correct point size for your particular images.

 

[konicaman]

Hmm...maybe there is something I haven't figured out in PS yet (using Elements 7 BTW), don't have LR installed, Windows.

And yes - I am lazy, so of course I am looking for a one-click-way out of this 🙄

 

[tlitody]

I don't know elements or whether it has programmable actions like the full version does.

 

[peterm1]

What I did was to download a font I liked from the internet (I chose a kind of grunge script) and then loaded it into MS Word. The MS Word help menu will tell you how if you do not know. You can obviously use a standard MS font if you prefer. But there are many free font sites out there so why not get creative?

I then typed suitable words (my logo which is "Life in Shadows") onto a blank Word document and using a screen grab tool like FastStone Capture, which I also downloaded free, I captured the text as a jpg image that I could save and then finally, open in PS. This is done simply by drawing a rectangular marquee around the text to select it and then saving the resulting file as a jpg image then opening that file in PS.

Once in PS it is a simple matter then to make a selection of the text itself using PS selection tools (I found its actually easiest to select the background using the color selection tool then invert the selection so the text is selected. This of course results in discarding the white background - which you do not need) and then I imported the resulting image of the text with its now transparent background as a PS brush. Again PS Help menu will tell you how. Once you have it in PS as a brush you can stamp it on whatever you want.

All sounds a bit complicated but in fact when you break it down into the 2-3 steps involved its very simple and quick to do.

This method provides great flexibility as you can reuse the text / brush whenever you wish on whatever image you wish and on any position on the image. And of course you can make it any density or any color by using the PS brush dialogue box.

It is then a one click solution to apply it to any image - and you do not have to create an action.

Another approach if you preferred is to save the text image with its transparent background as a PS layer and then overlay this on any document. It would give much the same result although I find the brush / stamp method more flexible.

Check out my flickr page (see link below) and you can see how it works on my images.) I generally put it in the border at the bottom of the image too.

 

[tlitody]

Hmm...maybe there is something I haven't figured out in PS yet (using Elements 7 BTW), don't have LR installed, Windows.

And yes - I am lazy, so of course I am looking for a one-click-way out of this 🙄

Seems elements will play photoshop actions but with limited functionality. But I'm not sure if you can create them in elements.

If you give me the text you want to show e.g.

my name : www.mydomain.com

and the white border width you want I can create one and send to you to try.

And font which I may or may not have.

It will create the border and position text if it works (it may not).

If your images already have a white border then I need to know how wide it is at bottom and on right.

PM your email address. I assume you can work out how to install it.