Where are the directions for putting text on a photo?
Edie.Frederick
box,
which is minimal.
Where are the directions for importing a photo to the add-text
function?
Are they in HELP? and if so what page > I do not see this function
called out in the Table of Contents.
I do not have time to read 53 pages and find that the directions for
adding text to a photo are not there.
I wasn't kidding when I said I could serve as a case for testing
usability of Seashore -- or Seashore directions. In my first job --
as office manager for a firm of designer/builders of computerized data
monitoring & logging systems, I was appointed tech writer after they
got a scathing letter from Westinghouse that said, "Only the designer
of this system could understand this manual!" My boss brought me a few
tech writing books,
asked me to study on company time and concluded, "It will be your job
to check the data with the engineers. Sorry about that." We proceeded
and
they got no further complaints. In fact, the got their bid to monitor
the
Alyeska Pipeline.
Now I am the layperson trying to read the manual ...
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I am a bit baffled by your complaints about the Seashore Guide
(help), as from my experiences, it is one of the best help documents I
have read.
I have a feeling this may however be a misunderstanding about
seashore's role.
Seashore is a standalone image editing application, not a plugin for
iPhoto.
With that in mind, you open images for editing as in any application:
File -> Open...
From there, you can go on to add a layer and put in text, etc.
If your guide is the same version as the one I'm looking at, then the
instructions for the text tool is on page 24 (25) -- as it says in the
contents of said document?
To edit your photo from iPhoto, you can set an 'Open with external
editor...' un preferences -- make it Seashore and then Seashore will
Run and open the photo when you click on the external editor option in
iPhoto (i don't have iPhoto on this machine, so I can't tell you where
that might be. I think it's in the right-click menu on photos at
least...)
My eg. workflow fro your task:
open your photo in seashore
add a new layer (CMD+SHIFT+N)
click on text tool (T in the tool box)
adjust the font accordingly (button in the options tab of the options
box -- if you can't see any of these boxes, press 1)
click on the image, write in your text in the box provided, click ok.
condense the layer to the text (Layer -> Extras -> Consdense To
Content CMD+SHIFT+E i think it was).
click the greyed-out links for the two layers in the layers box to
link them together.
next, select the photo layer (probably called background) so it isn't
the one that moves when...
...you align the text layer where you want it using the Layer ->
Alignment options
if you want a bit more space between the text and the edges, i'd use
the Layer -> Layer Boundaries... to add a little space after to
Condense To Content command
Hope that helps! :)
Josh