Any suggestions for how to make this text look amazing?

Question

Hey guys,
I'm a newbie at photoshop and I've recently started learning to run this blog that I create called Cultural Facts of the Day.
I am developing a graphic style for some of the stories that I post and I'm looking for advice on how to better some of the images on text. I have this one photo I am working on now. I'm using a Futura and gothic text, but I'm looking for inspiration or a tutorial on how to optimize text lay out on an image like this. I just want to put it out there that I am willing to pay for Skype tutorials if anyone wants to help me out!
This is what I'm working with and what I have so far:
My inspiration so far has been this Time article:

Answer 1

If the only thing you need to do efficiently is appending an object to the end of file, then quick & dirty solution follows
static void addObject(Object o,File f)throws IOException{
RandomAccessFile raf=new RandomAccessFile(f);
raf.seek(f.length());
ObjectOutputStream out=new ObjectOutputStream(new RAFOutputStream(raf));
out.write(obj);
out.close();
static Vector readAll(File f)throws IOException{
ObjectInputStream in=new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream(f));
Vector v=new Vector();
Object obj;
while((obj=in.readObject())!=null){
v.addElement(obj);
return v;
class RAFOutputStream extends OutputStream{
private RandomAccessFile raf;
RAFOutputStream(RandomAccessFile raf){
this.raf=raf;
public void write(int b)throws IOException{
raf.write(b);
public void close()throws IOException{
raf.close();
}