Ten Uses for Text on Photos
1) Make a notice
Left – Made with Studio; Right – Made with Moldiv
2) Add your brand/credit/attribution to your copyrighted images.
Left – Made with MOldiv; Right – Made with Studio
3) Supplementary text help to enhance or explain the photo
Left – Made with Moldiv; Right – Made with Studio
4) Label or title your photo
Left – Made with Moldiv; Right – Made with Studio
5) Add a mantra or make a quotograph/quotogram
Left – Made with Studio; Right – Made with Moldiv
6) Add balance to a photo
Both made with Moldiv
7) Text as part of the design
Both made with Studio
8) Tell a story
Both made with Moldiv
9) Embellish your photo collage
Left – Made with both Moldiv and Studio; Right – Made with Moldive
10) Make a festive e-card
Left – Made with Studio; Right – Made with Photoshop
Welcome back to Week 11 of the Snappy H’appy Photo Challenge hosted by weliveinaflat and firebonnet ;)
This challenge asks you to (1) share a good photo that you took or edited last week, (2) run it through a photo app on your smartphone or mobile device and share with us the result. This week it’s time to add text to your photos!
Some all-in-one photo apps like Picsart easily help you add text to your photos. There are also dedicated text apps for this function like Phonto and Over. My two favourite are Moldiv, a collage app and Studio, a design app. Let’s take a look at them.
Moldiv
Moldiv is a collage app that I’ve featured in the Snappy H’appy cutouts post before so more details on that link. I also like the app for it’s selection of fonts and customisation options :) The following screens give you a quick overview of the text features.
Click on Edit Text and the following options will appear:
This screen shows the Stroke/Shadow presets in the Edit Text section.
This screen shows the available tag patterns to choose from, should you need a background for your text.
But if you prefer your text on photos to look less home-made or crafty and more designy, then the Studio app may be more up your alley.
Studio Design
Studio bills itself as the Instagram for design. That’s why the splash page for the app is the image feed from other users that you may follow.
There is a free library of overlays to choose from, and there are also more free and in-app purchases that you can download from the Overlay Market. For this post, we look specifically at the available text options that come with the app installed.
If you want to input your own text, you have the option of using “Text” or “Text Crops”. Voice/Thought Bubbles are useful background for your text if you desire ;)
And if you’re feeling uninspired for that day, riffle through the “Mantras” and “Social Jive” sections for pre-made phrases.
This screen above shows a text crop being used. It’s kind of obscured by the text bubbles though. Sorry about that!
This screen above shows a Text layer overlayed on top of the Text Crop layer.
This screen shows the edit options for Text.
You can choose to save to your Gallery/Camera album or to share on your social media accounts.
The result:
Get Inspired!
- Made with Studio
- Made with Moldiv
- Quotographs people are pinning
- Memes people are pinning
Go get it!
Photo apps for your mobile devices
iOS devices
- Design apps
- Collage apps
- Text apps
Android devices
- featured in this post – Studio Design, Moldiv
- other apps with text feature – PicsArt
Host Challenge Photo
Photo of the week
Edited with Photoshop. Last week’s photo to illustrate the training post. Photo was taken indoors at night so the quality wasn’t too good.
Apped Photo
Edited with Snapseed and Studio. In Studio, added the round badge to focus on Donna’s volleyball smacking paw (‘cept there’s no volleyball, lol), and the text which I sized bigger than the original.
Now it’s your turn to share!
Create your challenge post from now until Sunday, 4 May end of your day. Post your Photo of the Week and your App-ed version of that photo on your blog. (You can follow my format above if you like).
Pic 1 – Your Photo of the Week can be taken with any equipment – a regular camera, a DSLR, a smartphone, hack even a pin-hole camera if you so choose!
Pic 2 – Pic 2 is optional. The theme this week is a Pop or Splash of colour, but if that is not your cup of tea, you are free to choose other app effects for your app-ed photo. In all cases, it would be helpful if you can name the app effect used so we can understand what you are doing ; )
Add the challenge badge and link your post to the host and co-host sites. Be nice and visit with some of the other challengers for this week! :) And do remember to leave me your blog post link in the comments below, in case I do not receive the pingback/trackback from your link.
For more information, you can read in detail more about the challenge and the instructions at the About page here. You can also grab the badges here.
Questions? Feel free to pose any questions in the comments below or email me at weliveinaflat@gmail.com. Next up, what happens after you have linked up? Why you start getting your challenger photo grid filled up!
Challenger Photo Grids
Every week, challenger grids get updated with the new photos! At the end, you get to grab your grid off this blog for your own pleasure. :D Meanwhile, you can view one another’s photos on the blogs by clicking on the linked numbered weeks above each challenger’s photo grid. I will try to keep it up to date as quick as I can ;)
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Challenger| Little Dogs Laughed
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Challenger| ForestWoodFolkArt.wordpress.com
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Challenger| Roxy The Traveling Dog
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Challenger| completelydisappear.com
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Challenger| Blogagaini
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Challenger| Zeke’s Adventures
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Challenger| LivingWithMyAncestors.wordpress.com
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Challenger| sassmuffins.com
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Challenger| Claim your photo grid, join the challenge today!
Next week, we’ll get Snappy H’appy with Creative Mixes for your photos! Thanks for checking out this Photo Challenge and making it all the way to the end of the post! ;)
Laika
Great ideas for photos.
FireBonnet
Thank you so much for the tutorial for Studio. I love all the great text effects you come up with. I wasn’t sure how to manage them in either Moldiv or Studio. Cool!
completelydisappear
Ahhh… Love this week’s challenge. And you truly have a way with words on pictures. They all look great!
:D
Fluffy Tufts
Those photos with text are so cool! I love them.
It’s making me wish I had a smart enough phone to have those apps. Any suggestions for a program I could use on the computer to get the same effects?
weliveinaflat
Sure Fluffy Tufts,
For more of a design feel, try – https://www.canva.com/
For more of a collage feel, try – https://pixlr.com/express/
Fluffy Tufts
Thanks a million. Looking forward to checking them out :-)
weliveinaflat
You’re welcome ;)
1st World Dog
Only a couple of weeks left! We are learning SO much. Hope you are planning the next challenge :o)
weliveinaflat
LOL I’m looking forward to a short break first! :P And then maybe a series on basic photography, that is not so focused on apps. But let me know if there are any topics you are interested in too. ;)
Fluffy Tufts
Just to let you know that I tried out the sites that you recommended. They are great, thanks!
Here is my latest blog post and it features a design I made using Canva!
http://fluffytufts.wordpress.com/2014/04/26/diy-cheese-and-garlic-dog-treat-recipe-canine-cookery/
weliveinaflat
Awesome! Thank you for linking back to me. Canva looks good, doesn’t it? ;)
dogtailsblog
Thanks for this! :)
weliveinaflat
Glad you like ;)
Roxy the Traveling Dog
I love to add text and it’s nice there are so many options out there. Here is mine. http://roxythetravelingdog.com/black-white-text/
Meghan aka FireBonnet
JX, when I saved my image in Studio, I got a footer/logo on it for Studio. Is there a choice I missed somewhere to not get that?
Meghan aka FireBonnet
I figured it out! Here’s mine just in time for the final challenge. http://firebonnet.com/2014/04/28/y-cat-tledog-comic-tuesday-weve-got-text-yawn/
weliveinaflat
Fantastic and I love them! Sorry I couldn’t reply your earlier question in time!! I actually never had that problem myself… hmmm…
manicivy
So sorry I’m late again )= Here is this week’s: http://gretchensite.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/week-11-of-the-snappy-happy-photo-challenge/
& last week’s (not sure if you saw it) http://gretchensite.wordpress.com/2014/04/20/week-10-of-the-snappy-happy-photo-challenge/
I think my favorite is Donna behind the door frame & plant saying Did you hear that? If Donna had a (people)voice, what do you think she would sound like? For some reason Doug & I like to pretend Zeke would talk like the golden retriever dog from the movie UP
sassmuffins
Well, now that I have my new website up and running (finally!), I will definitely add a post for this photo design challenge this weekend. I have not tried Studio, but really like the examples you give. You do a superb job! I have played with Over a little, after seeing some other folks on instagram use it. Have also used a program called easy TITLER. Will have to play with them some more for this challengel
sassmuffinss
Ok, here is my challenge for Week 11.
http://sassmuffins.com/blogs/posts/14039681-snappy-h-appy-photo-challenge-week-11-text-on-photos