Extra Tab

Add Text to Image

You may want to upload your images to a online web photo album so why not to sign them, put your copyright in a corner or your web page?

The Add text can add a smooth looking text to any corner of the image and you have a lot of control over the color, size, font offset from edge etc.

The simulated preview will help you to see your settings. The preview is on a colored rainbow background to get an idea about the final look

One sample of a corner of output image:

Text and EXIF data

You can type any text here, but it also let you to insert some EXIF data such as date, shutter speed etc.

To help you to enter keywords which will be during process replaced by real data, you just click the arrow at the side of the text edit box and select item from menu.

For date it will enter something like this:

%DATE%

in the edit box. Of course you can add other text or use more keywords for other EXIF data.

For the Date it is a good idea to select also a format of Date or Date+ Time if you prefer, since the date format stored in EXIF may not suit everybody taste. (The original format is chosen when you leave the format on "Date Format")

Depending on the color, size and placement the result on image may look like this:

Other example may be the EXIF data such shutter speed, ISO etc.:

%SPEED% F%FNUM% ISO:%ISO% %FLASH%

The result printed on image will look like this:

To see the EXIF data in a simulated preview you have to have some image selected in cue list (so the EXIF data have some values).

The text will always show only on the simulated rainbow preview, not on any of the Image After thumbnail or 1:1 Detail boxes.

Background
You may use transparent background, so only the letters are visible or put a Semi-Transparent or fully opaque background.
The semi-transparent background is the nicest choice since it creates enough contrast for text to be readable , yet it doesn't show too strong on the image.

Offset
The offset is the offset of the text from a closest edge of image. You may want to place the text right on the edge or move it more inside the image.

Font
To change the Font, and its attributes (Italics, Bold..) Click on the button.

If you select a size inside the Font dialog it will show a different (higher) number in the Font size edit box. For example a size of 11 Arial will show as 15 px in the Font size edit.
This is because the Size edit shows the size in pixels. You can't go lower than 8 pixels and higher than 80.

Minolta DiMAGE Color space Matching

Minolta uses its own color space. Auto DCE can convert the custom color space to sRGB, much like the Minolta supplied Image Viewer. If you don't use image viewer to convert your pictures then enable this option. If you use image viewer utility to download and convert your pictures from DiMAGE cameras then uncheck this option to prevent froum double-conversion.

Options:

Only if maker is Minolta
Recommended setting. The image will be first test if it is Minolta image. The Color Matching will be applied only if it is Minolta image.

Apply to all images
Not recommended. This will apply the color matching to all images. This is just for a rare cases (when the EXIF info was removed from jpg for example)