If you have a photo in electronic form (in a file), then the easiest way is to put an inscription on it using any graphic editor. After this operation, the photo with the text can be saved as a "hard copy" using a printer or used in the same virtual electronic form on the Internet or on your own computer. The procedure below is using the Adobe Photoshop editor.
Necessary
Graphic editor Adobe Photoshop
Instructions
Step 1
First of all, upload a photo to the editor. You can do this by pressing the "hot keys" CTRL + O, and then in the opening dialog, find the desired file, using the preview picture for greater confidence.
Step 2
Then press the D key to set the default colors (white background and black text), followed by the T key to enable the horizontal text tool. After that, click the photo anywhere and start typing. It's okay if the text is too small, not contrasting, or is located in the wrong place where it should be - then you will adjust everything, but now you just need to create an object for subsequent editing.
Step 3
After the text for the decal is created, click the Move tool - this is the topmost icon in the toolbar. This will turn off the text input tool at the same time. If the inscription needs to change the font, color or size, then go to the "Character" panel and set all the necessary values. If such a panel is not on your screen, then you can find it in the menu section with the name "Window". In addition to the listed settings, in this panel, you can adjust the spacing between letters and lines, make the font bold, italic or underlined, and apply a lot of other options to the font.
Step 4
Having finished with the font, move the caption to the desired place in the photo - this can be done with the mouse or with the navigation keys (arrows).
Step 5
At the end of the work with the inscription, you can apply any effect to the text (shadow, gradient fill, relief, glow, etc.). These kinds of effects are applied not so much to the text as to the layer and are collected in one panel with a separate tab for each type of effect. To launch this panel, double-click the text layer in the "layers palette".
Step 6
If you plan in the future to somehow use or edit what you have just created, then save all the created layers and effects in Photoshop format (PSD). To do this, just press CTRL + S and specify the name and location of the file.
Step 7
And to save the photo with the caption in a format more suitable for use, for example, on the Internet, you can use the keyboard shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + alt="Image" + S. In the window that opens, select the format and quality settings corresponding to this format, and then specify the name new file and save to the desired location.
