Adding Text to a photo...Need help

I'm new to Adobe Photoshop Elements 7. I'm following the instructions for adding text to a photo, but I can't see what I'm typing. I can see the cursur, but nothing else. I can see the text in the Layer, but not on the photo. Please help.

Check the font size in the options bar. If it's really small you won't see it.
Look in your layer's palette and insure your text is in a layer located above the photo in the stack.
You might also check your image's resolution in the Image Size dialog. I've seen a couple of posts where someone changes the resolution to 1 with resample turned off...then can't see the text because it's too small even when they have large numbers inserted in the font size box.

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I'm adding text to a photo.. Trying to get an S to lay down

I'm adding text to a photo and can't get an S to lay down?

I'm guessing on what you are trying to do, to some extent, but see if this helps. Your photograph will have a horizon, and perspective. For instance, if there are any buildings in the image, lines drawn through the top and bottom edges of the building, and extended to the horizon, will always intersect at the same point. If you lay down some guides as shown in this illustration, and overlay some perspective lines with a 1 pixel line, then use the resulting box to Free transform the letter S to.
It is _much_ easier if you Rasterize the text layer, because that will cause the Free Transform bounding box and handles, to fit tightly around the text. Otherwise the bounding box will be larger than the text to include descenders and risers for the font used.
So with guides and guide lines in place, and the text rasterized, use Free Transform, and hold down the Ctrl (Cmd) key will dragging the corner handles to the intersect points.
In the illustration I have made a nice simple concentric perspective, but that probably won't be the case in your image. But if you use clues from the image, you will be able to work out its true perspective. In fact I rarely resort to using guides, and just do it by eye.
A little tip when doing this is to make the object a Smart Object before using Free Transform. The reason is if you decide to tweak the perspective and use FT a second time, with an SO layer the handles will still be in the corners. A normal layer will now have the FT handles square to the document edges, which makes it much more difficult to refine the shape.
BTW Thanks for asking a proper, interesting, question about using Photoshop, as opposed to the usual 'My dog has eaten my serial number' posts.

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I have added text to my photos on my iMac. Is it possible to transfer this text to my iPad so that I can view the photos with text on my TV using Apple TV.

How did you add the text to the photo in the first place?
OT

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Some Image Editors that support layers:
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Acorn - $50
Pixelmator - $60
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Portraits and Prints - Free
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OT

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I will piggy back on this discussion. I have discovered that, although the image resolution is inconsequential when sizing images by pixel dimensions, it still matters if you decide to add copyright information with the type tool.
e.g. I have received images from several people, all sized to 1024 pixels in width, but I wanted to add their names to the front of the images before putting the images into a slideshow. I quickly discovered that, although the images are of identical size when viewed, the names applied vary in size according to the resolution of the image.
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Message was edited by: sdenby

sdenby:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. You can't with iPhoto. You'll need a 3rd party editor like Photoshop Elements for Mac which can add text in a variety of ways and do advanced editing. PSE is the consumer version of the pro Photoshop and has about 80% of it's capabilities at 1/7 the price. There are other editors available that can do the job. Go to VersionTracker.com and search for image editor. You'll get a number of possibilities.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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i'm currently trying to make a simple cd cover using iPhoto to add to itunes. Is there any way i could add text to a photo that i have in the iPhoto library?

The Preview method puts the text in a box with a yellow background. If that's not what you want, I suggest you look at a number of 3rd party image editor. The best, IMO, is Photoshop Elements for Mac. It not only can do text on photos, it can curve the text and do other advanced editing. Amazon.com often has deals on it for around $80.
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Do you Twango?
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I am trying to add text onto my photo but can not find the function. Is this allowable?

And Martin S has come up with a way to do this using iPhoto as a work around - see http://simnet.is/klipklap/iphoto/adding-text/
Hi Larry, I was following your step by step guide for adding text to iphoto.
Sorry - as I said Martin S developed and posted this workflow - I only reported it - I personally have never used it - I do know that some others have used it successfully
Also any of the photo editors on the web page I referenced in my original post will add text
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I am having a problem adding a title (credits) over a photo I have added to the end of a movie. I unclick "over black" and type in the text to scroll over the photo, and when I try to drag the "T" onto the photo, a black clip appears, and the text goes over that. I look up, and the "over black" box is checked again. I did lengthen the time of the photo, but that hasn't made a difference.
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blakespot,
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Check the font size in the options bar. If it's really small you won't see it.
Look in your layer's palette and insure your text is in a layer located above the photo in the stack.
You might also check your image's resolution in the Image Size dialog. I've seen a couple of posts where someone changes the resolution to 1 with resample turned off...then can't see the text because it's too small even when they have large numbers inserted in the font size box.

Text index search issue -- need help

Hi,
We have created a text index using the below script. This is working fine and we are able to retrieve data when we do a search on this with 'contains' clause.
CREATE INDEX ITEM_TXT_IDX ON ITEM
(ITEM_NAME)
INDEXTYPE IS CTXSYS.CONTEXT;However now the problem is we are not able to search with special characters.
when we perform search with below query it doesnt retrieve any record. i guess when we search with special character using text index, it ignores the special characters and performs search
SELECT * FROM item
WHERE contains(item_name, 'AGREE NATURE BALANCED NRML LIQ 300 ML (#', 1) > 0 the below query retrieves record fine as it doesnt have any special character search.
SELECT * FROM item
WHERE contains(item_name, 'AGREE NATURE BALANCED NRML LIQ 300 ML', 1) > 0can anyone pls help?

You need to escape the special characters by either putting \ in front of each special character or putting {} around each token containing special characters. That will cause the contains query to view them as ordinary characters instead of attributing special meaning to them. However, since, by default, they are not tokenized and indexed, they will be ignored and your search will find a string with those characters and a string without those characters. If you want to be able to search for the actual characters, then you need to set them as printjoins in a lexer and use that lexer as a parameter in your index creation. You can see what has been tokenized and indexed by selecting from the token_text column of the dr$your_index_name$i domain index table after index creation. Please see the demonstration below.
SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> -- test environment:
SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> CREATE TABLE item
2    (item_name VARCHAR2 (60))
3 /
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SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> INSERT ALL
2 INTO item (item_name) VALUES ('AGREE NATURE BALANCED NRML LIQ 300 ML (#')
3 INTO item (item_name) VALUES ('AGREE NATURE BALANCED NRML LIQ 300 ML')
4 INTO item (item_name) VALUES ('OTHER DATA')
5 SELECT * FROM DUAL
6 /
3 rows created.
SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> -- without printjoins:
SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> CREATE INDEX ITEM_TXT_IDX
2 ON ITEM (ITEM_NAME)
3 INDEXTYPE IS CTXSYS.CONTEXT
4 /
Index created.
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2 /
TOKEN_TEXT
300
AGREE
BALANCED
DATA
LIQ
ML
NATURE
NRML
OTHER
9 rows selected.
SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> SELECT * FROM item
2 WHERE contains
3            (item_name,
4             'AGREE NATURE BALANCED NRML LIQ 300 ML \(\#',
5             1) > 0
6 /
ITEM_NAME
AGREE NATURE BALANCED NRML LIQ 300 ML (#
AGREE NATURE BALANCED NRML LIQ 300 ML
2 rows selected.
SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> SELECT * FROM item
2 WHERE contains
3            (item_name,
4             'AGREE NATURE BALANCED NRML LIQ 300 ML {(#}',
5             1) > 0
6 /
ITEM_NAME
AGREE NATURE BALANCED NRML LIQ 300 ML (#
AGREE NATURE BALANCED NRML LIQ 300 ML
2 rows selected.
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2    CTX_DDL.CREATE_PREFERENCE ('item_lexer', 'BASIC_LEXER');
3    CTX_DDL.SET_ATTRIBUTE ('item_lexer', 'PRINTJOINS', '(#');
4 END;
5 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
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2 /
Index dropped.
SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> CREATE INDEX ITEM_TXT_IDX
2 ON ITEM (ITEM_NAME)
3 INDEXTYPE IS CTXSYS.CONTEXT
4 PARAMETERS ('LEXER item_lexer')
5 /
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2 /
TOKEN_TEXT
300
AGREE
BALANCED
DATA
LIQ
ML
NATURE
NRML
OTHER
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SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> SELECT * FROM item
2 WHERE contains
3            (item_name,
4             'AGREE NATURE BALANCED NRML LIQ 300 ML \(\#',
5             1) > 0
6 /
ITEM_NAME
AGREE NATURE BALANCED NRML LIQ 300 ML (#
1 row selected.
SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> SELECT * FROM item
2 WHERE contains
3            (item_name,
4             'AGREE NATURE BALANCED NRML LIQ 300 ML {(#}',
5             1) > 0
6 /
ITEM_NAME
AGREE NATURE BALANCED NRML LIQ 300 ML (#
1 row selected.
SCOTT@orcl_11gR2>

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