Click the Text tag and type in the text you want in the Caption box. Make sure image captioning is switched on and the button in the top right shows:
You can use the following characters to include information in the caption:
+p | file path |
+f | filename |
+e | extension |
+it | File Time (hh:mm) |
+id | File date (dd-Mmm-yy) |
+t | time (hh:mm) |
+d | date (dd-Mmm-yy) |
+x | EXIF data, see below |
+a | IPTC data, see below |
++ | + |
Click the button to set the font style and size. Click the “Fore” button set set the color of the text. If you want a background click the check box and click the “Back” button to select a background color.
Set your required location, opacity and margins.
If you want a drop shadow background click the “DrSha” check box. The 3 boxes below control the size and position of the drop shadow.
Adding an image or visible watermark
Full list of codes available including EXIF and IPTC
+n | Newline (for multi-line text) |
+p | File path |
+f | Filename |
+e | File extension (eg JPG) |
+t | Current time (hh:mm) |
+d | Current date (dd-Mmm-yy) |
+it | File Time (hh:mm) |
+id | File date (dd-Mmm-yy) |
+xt | EXIF Time (hh:mm) |
+xd | EXIF date (dd-Mmm-yy) |
+xc | EXIF Comment |
+xe | EXIF Description |
++ | + |
+a5 | IPTC Object Name |
+a15 | IPTC Category |
+a20 | IPTC Supplemental Category |
+a25 | IPTC Keywords |
+a40 | IPTC Special Instructions |
+a55 | IPTC Date Created |
+a60 | IPTC Time Created |
+a90 | IPTC City |
+a92 | IPTC Street |
+a95 | IPTC State |
+a100 | IPTC Country Code |
+a101 | IPTC Country |
+a105 | IPTC Headline |
+a110 | IPTC Credit |
+a115 | IPTC Source |
+a116 | IPTC Copyright Notice |
+a118 | IPTC Contact |
+a120 | IPTC Caption/Abstract |
+a122 | IPTC Writer/Editor |
Note all the IPTC data is available and can be accessed by using +aNNN where NNN is the code number. Where IPTC data has multiple values these are joined together and separated by a “;”