App to add text to photos for social media
App to add text to photos for social media
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Barchettaman

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Morning all,

I am an opera singer and use social media, particularly Instagram, for shameless self promotion.

How do I add text to stage photos? Obviously there is the text generator on the IG site but the text seems to get lost in the photo itself.

Here are a couple of examples (from a colleague) of what I am hoping to achieve: a black box with text is added to a photo above it, and a separate quote is created on a black background.

Thanks in advance for any tips




spitfire-ian

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Have a look at Photoshop Express. That should do what you want.

https://www.adobe.com/uk/products/photoshop-expres...

Mammasaid

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Love how the Grauniad is spelt incorrectly! biggrin

ADJimbo

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A simple desktop publishing app should be able to do that - even PowerPoint and then save the slide as a .jpg

GoodDoc

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I don't think it will create the stylistic quote box in the above images, but I use Annotable to add pointers, text, and magnification loupes to photos on my phone, but Annotable could certainly add a black text box very quickly to an image.

It looks like it's iOS only, £10 for all features, £2 for all text features and fonts, and I think they have a free version which should be enough for you to see if it can do what you want;

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/annotable-annotation...

EDIT; I saw "instagram" and "App to add text" and just assumed you wanted an app for mobile devices. For desktop/laptop work I use Pixelmator Pro (avoids the whole Adobe recurring charges/contract problems) to create images like this, but most of the time I just use Annotable on my phone, more limited but it tends to be quicker.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pixelmator-pro/id128...

Edited by GoodDoc on Thursday 16th October 14:26

Barchettaman

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Many thanks all.

Barchettaman

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Mammasaid said:
Love how the Grauniad is spelt incorrectly! biggrin
Yeah, I spotted that!!