Question adding text in Lightroom

[slidenride]

How do I add text to a photo in lightroom?

[bolsen187]

I asked this 3 months ago and got no good solutions. I think the cheapest may be to finish everything you need to do on the image and then export it to Picassa where you can add text. I wanted to add names to bird pics like I did in Picassa for years. Photoshop is another option but if that is all you need then it is very expensive not to mention a steep lerning curve.

[dj_paige]

There is no built-in way to add text to an image in Lightroom, other than a "watermark" which you can add on export.

There are plugins that allow you to add text to an image on export, such as Mogrify 2 http://www.photographers-toolbox.com/products/lrmogrify2.php

[Jim Wilde]

LR/Mogrify2 (well-known plug-in for Lightroom) has the capability to add text, either free-form of using metadata tokens such as Title, Caption etc., as well as the ability to add borders (which it is probably best known for).

[Geoff the kiwi]

And depending on what text you want and where on the image it can be done in the Print Module on the Slideshow Module and exported as a jpeg.

[bolsen187]

Can you expand on this. Where and what get clicked to get a text box to appear?

[Geoff the kiwi]

Check these screen shots......... or look in Help or view a video on AdobeTV