Process multiple files question

I have finished scanning a number of old family photos and have used Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 (PSE9) to “tag” and add “captions” to each photo. The photos vary in size and are saved in tif format. All of the work I have done so far was using the Organizer in PSE9.
When using the slideshow function of PSE9, I can view the photos and see the caption written over the bottom of the photos. Using other software to view the photos does not show the captions.
I have gone to the Edit screen of PSE9 and under File there is Process Multiple Files. Clicking that I have selected the options in the Labels section to add a caption, checked description, default font, 75 Opacity, default color. Having processed the multiple files, I thought when opening the processed photos I would see the caption I entered in the Organizer along the bottom of the photos. However, the caption does not appear when I view the photos. Am I misunderstanding something here? Would the captions only appear if I print the photo? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

If they are large resolution images you possibly can't see the text on top of the photos as the font size is too small. You can change this manually when adding text to a single photo e.g. type 100 or 150 into the font size box but it's not possible during batch processing in PMFs
Open an image in Full edit and look in the layers panel to see if the text layer is present - but this will only work if you saved as PSD.
Otherwise you will need to reduce the file size and then add the captions im PMF's.

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