Adding text to photos?

I need to add some text to photos, and it needs to look good. Almost like a subtle watermark but the placement and text color needs to be controlled.

MS paint would produce horrible results.

I do not have any photo editing software, what is a simple easy to use, and free software?


I found this but I've not tried it
faststone-photo-resizer

 

Photobucket would be my guess, I've used it for making a small water mark, reducing the opacity and all.

 

Watermark factory for bulk watermarking images. This is a commercil grade solution with lots and lots of options.

For watermarking one at a time, look up a program called Photoscape. Photoscape is free and well worth the download.

 

Nice! If vB could make some videos on their site like the ones in the help section of this site they would increase sales! A lot of people do not relate the web terminology to what they are supposed to do.

Photoscape


Edited to add: If that video help was working more consistently it would be great. It seems to work one minute and not the next minute.

 

A lot of people swear by a program called Gimp. I have Photoshop so I've never tried Gimp, but everyone says it can pretty much do anything Photoshop can do.

And it's free. GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program

 

Thanks, I'll look at Gimp too.

As it turns out IrfanView will do this as well, which I already had on my computer :doh:



Added: I just checked and Photoshop is $700. It appears they are changing their business model at least to some degree.

 

Lol, FINALLY!

Although I got mine for $99 a friend sold me his

 

You might be interested in checking out this thread: http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/graphics-design/gimp-anyone-use-90/

There's also this one which, if I recall correctly, also mentions GIMP in a few places: http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/graphics-design/photoshop-46/

...And just a little bit more here: http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/gr...phics-programs-do-you-use-934/?highlight=GIMP

 

There are a few online utilities for adding text to your pictures, too:
roflbot - add text and captions to your pictures
Phixr - Online Photo Editor add text or speech bubble, requires registration
PICFONT - Add text to picture
Add Text to Image Online, Add Photo Caption

 

Gimp....*shivers*

 

Thanks Nick. Sounds like paint.net might be worth looking into for my needs.

Does anyone know is paint.net can do vector graphics? (whatever those are :lol

Thanks! I'll check them out later.