Then I can move this entire layer here to readjust it. For instance let's just use a linear bump here and put the bump by the text and you can take and use that to kind of distort the text there. Some of the Distortion effects work pretty well. That may or may not work depending upon your use. Now Pointilize creates an interesting kind of look there. Some of the effects will be useful for text and some will not be. Now that's unreadable so we will undo some of the crystallization to make it more interesting like that. Not the photo behind it but just the text. We could double click and we see that it crystalizes the text. So for instance we want to do the crystalize effect. So let's go View/Show Effects and we can see we have a lot of different effects here. But as pixels we can now apply different effects to it. Once it is converted to pixels it is no longer editable text. So there is some basic things we can do there.Д«ut in addition we can also Control/Click on it and Convert it to Pixels. We can also change the blending so we can change maybe how the colors look over on that layer. One thing that we can do with it right here is under Layers we can change how opaque that layer is if we wanted to. We have the background image and the text image. So what else can we do with it? Well, this text is actually a layer over the regular image. I can Transform and it will change everything up here so I can do it with height scaling.

You can see here there are other ways to get to this. If I select it I can control click on it and get some more options. Now we can continue to transform the text a little bit here. The shadow does help it pop out the text a little bit more. Then once you have a drop shadow you can adjust the darkness of the shadow and the blurriness of the shadow and the distance and even the angle of the shadow if I want. I can add things like a drop shadow as well. I can access the fonts and I can also adjust the size on a point-by-point basis like that a little bit better. This brings up the system Fonts panel here. Now if we want finer control one of the things that we can do is to bring up the Text Font Inspector. We can change the spacing between the characters as well. We can also change the spacing between the lines if we wanted to. We can see now that we have the ability to Left Justify it or Center Justify it. You notice here there is a dot-dot-dot saying there is more tools here so we're going to expand the window a bit so we can see all the tools. Then I click here to change the color so it is something that contrasts more with the floor underneath it. This text font here has two versions so I will go with one like that. Then go back to the Text tool to go back and edit the text again.

At any time we can switch to the selection tool here and drag it around. Then we can adjust the size a little more now that we know the font, maybe have it go on several lines if we make the font large enough. Then let's go and find a more suitable font that will be a little more fun for this.

Let's make it a little larger first so we can see it better. Let's double click in it and select everything. So the next thing we want to do is we want to change the font and the size. To type the text that we want double click inside of it and it will select text there and then just type. So we want to have a caption here that basically spans the entire thing so let's expand it there and now we are ready to add text. Either way you can click and drag this text around the screen and you can pull on the ends of it to expand it. Likewise you could also just click this text button here at the top once you have selected Text here and it will just add a piece of text right in the middle. One is you can click on the text tool here under the Tools and click anywhere to add text. Now to add text to it there are several ways you can start. Here I've opened up a simple photo using Pixelmator. So let's look at how you can do that using Pixelmator. So anyone surfing the internet in the last ten years knows that it is a common thing to take a funny picture and add a text caption to it. On today's episode let's look at adding text to images using Pixelmator. Video Transcript: Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now. Check out MacMost Now 828: Adding Text To Images With Pixelmator at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

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