Captions/comments ON photo - not in "info" windo

Can't find the "how-to" in iPhoto Help or the tutorial. I would like to place captions at center bottom of photo. Or, better yet, as thought balloons above our "goofy" expressions. How do I move the comments onto the photo rather than left in the "info" windo? Thanx, ~Newbie~
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I have been using Photfunstudio for storing phots on my PC. However I have just bought a new PC (windows 7) and on copying over all my pictures I found I lost all the 'captions' to the photos. The photofunstudio help line said 'yes that would happen and there's nothing you can do about it'. Well thanks for that! I now have the fun task of manually copying the captions from the old PC to the new one. Obviously I dont want to use Photofun studioand have to do this all again in X years when I change PC. So I am now looking for decent software that will
a. Be capable of storing comments/captions for each photo (not ON the photo, but as a comment so I can read where the picture was taken e.g. I can write and store 'Malham gorge from the north')
b. Be capable of being backed up and transferred to another PC without losing the link between the comment and photo.
c. Be capable of importing existing photos into some understandable directory tree format e.g. month/year, so I don't have to reorganise all existing photos again
Thats all I need and want. Can some kind person inform me if Photoshop 10 would do this (seems a basic task?). Many thanks.

Simon:
I concur with the other posters:
1. You are asking in the wrong place. While most of us wh odeal wit hInDesign to have to manage photos in some way, you are much better off asking in a forum devoted to photos or photo management, like one of the Photoshop forums.
2. From your description, Photofunstudio is horribly broken (I am not familiar with it). The industry standard method for maintaining captioning information is in the metadata of the photos, be it XMP metadata or IPTC metadata, and that stores the caption data either in the same file as the photo (usually), or in a seperate "sidecar" .xmp file right next to the original file (sometimes). Either way, copying the files copies the metadata. While some systems may store the metadata in an internal database, any reasonable system permits exporting that data to one of the aforementioned formats.
3. Adobe's products that deal with image metadata are Bridge, and Lightroom. They are very different kinds of tools,
so check them both out.

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1 - Please fix yoour Cap Lock key - all caps is terribly hart to read and is rude - considered yelling
2 - to place text on a photo you need a photo editor - Preview can do it as can many other editors - <a href="http://web.me.com/larryhn/iPhoto_08_(version_7.x.x)_FAQ/Graphic_programs.html"> click here for links to some to consider.</a>
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Hi
I am working on a large genealogy project and have just scanned in hundreds of old family photos collected from many relatives. I would like to add captions with the names of the people in the photos so that future generations will also be able to identify who is on the photo. iphoto only allows to add comments etc in the comments box but not in such a way that the caption appears together with the photo. I would then like to reimport the photo with attached caption into iphoto for further processing.
I have seen a webpage describing a PC program called "Breezebrowser" (http://www.rideau-info.com/genealogy/digital/captioning.html) which allows PC users to add captions to photos. Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to find an equivalent program. I have downloaded trial versions of "Comic life", "Portraits and Prints" and "Photo Mechanic", but neither seems to be doing what I need.
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Alternatives to iPhoto's slideshow include:
iMovie is on every Mac sold.
Others, in order of price:
PhotoToMovie $49.95
PulpMotion $129
FotoMagico $99
Final Cut Pro X $299
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My wife uses Adobe PSE 4 on her Windows XP laptop and won't switch to the PSE 9 software I bought her. She has 12,000+ photos in her Organizer catalog, and the underlying files are scattered all over two hard drive partitions. Many of them are duplicated (the thumbnails and sometimes the files themselves). Some thumbnails are disconnected and I can't find the files when I try to reconnect them. Many of them also have Captions that she has painstakingly added over the last 8 years. Because her drives are almost full, and she is annoyed with all the dupes, but doesn't want to lose her Captions, I have been tasked with getting everything back in order, including getting all the photo files themselves located in a high level directory (folder location).
I created a new "master" directory and started locating/moving some photo files there. I figured out that after I move them, PSE 4 will reconnect them, with captions, if I select the thumbnails in Organizer and then use Update Thumbnails from the right-click context menu. However, that's extremely time consuming and unreliable, because once I've moved a batch of files (in Windows Explorer), I have trouble finding them in Organizer photo bin to work with them, and the "batches" of files I've moved are not physically adjacent to each other (by date or whatever) in the Organizer photo bin. Also, Organizer wants to import files into the new "Watched" master folder location (which may or may not be duplicates, or new files that were never catalogued to begin with).
Is there a faster and easier way to do these basic tasks?:
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2. Move the photo files in Windows Explorer as desired (I'm can handle that part).
3. Recatalog/reconnect the files, making SURE that I don't lose the Captions. Or the redating she did on many of them when the camera date wasn't set right.
4. Elimate the duplicate files, but only those WITHOUT Captions, so that I don'l lose those WITH Captions.
Yeah, I know this is a pretty big mess, but I've spent hours already researching and trying to do this project. If there's a better way to do this by upgrading to PSE 9 or a later version, I could do that, but it needs to run reliably on an older laptop with Win XP, and the biggest thing is that if I lose her Captions (or the date changes she's made when the camera had the wrong date), I'm toast.
If there's a way to write the Captions and Dates established in the PSE catalog into each file's metadata, then re-extract that into a completely new catalogue, I could do that, too, perhaps, as a way of getting my arms around this. That assumes PSE 4 can overwrite the metadata first, then retrieve those fields from the files into the new catalog (but if it can, I have no idea how to do that).
Thanks for any strategy and tips.

You can move the photos within the PSE4 Organizer (in Folder Location View, Alt-Ctrl-3) and then you don't have to reconnect.
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There are a gazillion threads here on how to find duplicates, I suggest you search for them.
Upgrading to PSE9 won't fix the mess. Starting a new catalog will cause loss of captions and other metadata for disconnected photos. And if you have reconnected the photos, you don't need a new catalog; it won't buy you anything.
Once finished, I suggest you adopt policies that don't cause duplicates, and don't cause dis-connected photos, and that don't wind up with photos all over the hard disk. Not hard to do.

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My photo does not show beside my texts in Messages on my Mac. Only a shadow of a generic person in a rectangle is there. I can see the photos of others who write me, though. I have my photo in Contacts and it does show up in Mail, but not in Messages. My photo also shows up in IMessage on the iPad.
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Then you really should not be posting in the Photoshop for Beginners Forum, I guess, but in the Forum dedicated to that piece of software.
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Anna
Welcome to the Apple user to user assistance forums
I have never heard of Cannon Zoombrowser - in doing a google search on it it appears to be a proprietary program for processing movies
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