Add text to Photos using Pages
1 - Open Pages.
3 - Now move your pointer over the Blank Canvas Landscape, and click once. The canvas should now have a yellow line around it after you click. (That means you “selected” the canvas.)
Want to add text to some of your pictures? At the time of writing it is not possible in iPhoto, but easily done using Pages, a part of iWorks. Here are the steps.
4 - Now click on Choose.
Notes:
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(a)Be sure that the triangle to the left of iPhoto, points downwards. If it is pointing to the right, then all the contents are hidden. Click on the triangle to experiment and see what happens. Click again to bring it back to where it was.
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(b)You can change the space used for showing pictures by dragging the dot in the centre of the line below the list.
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(c)You can change the size of the whole window by dragging the corner.
2 - Move your pointer over the word “Blank” just underneath the Page Layout title in the left pane of the window called Template Chooser. Click once, to highlight it.
The Template Chooser window opens. Select a blank Landscape document from the Page layout area. If this is the first time you are doing this continue with step #2, else skip to step # 5.
5 - Look for Media in the top right hand corner of the window that opens with the blank document, and click on it.
7 - Use the blue sliders to locate the picture you want. These work the same as they do on a web browser which I suspect you are already familiar with. If you have a lot of pictures, you may first want to locate the album, click on it to highlight it, then use the sliders in the picture area to locate the correct picture.
6 - Select (click on) Photos. You should now see the photos in your iPhoto Library listed. (Check the notes on the left if you don’t see them.)
9 - The picture should have an outline with small squares in the corners and middle. This means that it is selected, and you can resize it or move it around. If you do not see the outline, click once on the picture to select it. Now click on one of the squares and drag it towards the edge of the blank document. The picture will expand. The aim is to fill the document. (The larger the picture, the more pixels in the final copy put on iPhoto.) You may have to play around a bit. Drag to fill as much space as you can, then release.
Now move your pointer somewhere over the picture, press your pointer down (click and hold) and move it a bit. Notice that he picture moves. You can move it around to fill the whole document space. (Hard to describe in words. Check the video for a visual explanation. Click here.)
8 - Once you locate the photo you want to use, click and hold, and drag the picture to the Pages document. Then let go.
11 - When you start to type, the text in the box will be replaced.
10 - When the picture ready, click on Text Box. This places a box in the middle of the picture. You can move this box around the same way you moved the picture. Click once on the text box to reveal the squares to drag, or click in the middle to drag the whole box to another area of the picture.
14 - When you are ready with your project, click on the print command. One way is to just click Command and P. Now click on DPF at the bottom right. (14a)
Locate Save PDF to iPhoto, and click on it. (14b)
Your picture with words will be saved to iPhoto.
Step 9 may take a bit of practice if you have not done this before. Also, the picture may not fit exactly. If that’s the case you fill as much space as you can. You will end up either cropping a bit of the picture, or leaving some blank space which you would have to crop in iPhoto later.
13 - Note that I moved the text line lower on the picture, and also changed the colour and the size.
Tip: Text not large enough? Change text size easily while the text box is selected. Press Command and + to increase. Press Command and - to decrease.
Open iPhoto to check it out. Maybe the lettering is too small, or too large, or would look better moved to a different spot. Maybe you need to crop an edge in case the photo did not take up all of the document as was the case in the example on the right.
Note that you will still have to either save, or close the Pages document without saving. I suggest you save it for now until you are totally satisfied with the results.
