So just before you send the image off to somebody you can go ahead and set the font and things like that, put some text, and do whatever you want with it. You can use the markup tool inside the Mail app for the same thing. Now since the markup tools from Preview are part of the markup tools used by other apps like say in Mail, you can be ready to email an image like this. So now when I share this somewhere, upload this to a social network or a photo sharing site or webpage it will have my watermark or my caption or whatever it is permanently imbedded in the jpg image. When I'm done and I save I'm going to get this jpg here where that will be permanently imbedded into the image. Then put that down in the corner or some such but the result is the same. Now if I wanted to put some sort of watermark then it would make more sense to create something that had a little bit smaller font. I have to be able to revert to a previous version or use the current one that has the text imbedded on there. Now I've restored it here with that text gone. I can go back to that one and I can restore it. However I can still use File/Revert to and browse all the versions and I can see that I've got in versions on the Mac, I've got the ability to go back to the previous version of the document. It has been permanently placed on the image which is what you would expect because this is a jpg and a jpg isn't some sort of multi layered document that can include things like text. We can see now that the text is on it but it is no longer editable. What happens when I save this out? I'm just going to do a regular save and I've got the original file right here. Now we can see that it is a lot easier to see with that drop shadow under it because without it it would be almost invisible. So we can see if we can change this to a color that's similar. You can see the drop shadow which helps a lot when the colors are kind of about the same. But you can use the drop shadow there and now you will notice that it has a slight drop shadow under it. The only thing you can do here, this is changing the line styles, and if you are drawing lines instead of text you can use this. Like, for instance, here I can change the background color of the box it is in. Than I can also, with it selected, change other things about it. I can center it in that box or justify it. So let's go to something like Arial and we can bold it. I can then use these tools here to change the font, for instance, and I can make it bold if the font has that. I tap away and I can go back and drag this. Now to edit what that text says I can double click inside and I can type something and I can even put another line like that. It creates a piece of text and then I can drag that anywhere around on the screen. Once we turn that on we now have a whole set of tools here, including the ability to add text. Now we want to turn on the markup tools and it is this little markup toolbar button here at the top. So I've got my image now to jpg and I want to add some text to it. If not I could have always just opened up the Preview app and then used File/Open from in there to grab it or dragged and dropped on to it. Then I'm going to open this up in Preview which is the default app for opening up a jpg file or most image files. You could, of course, start with a jpg image already as a file but I just wanted to show that in case you are starting from there. So, I'm going to start off here in the Photos app and just drag out to the desktop a jpg image. Say you want to add a caption or watermark to a photo. On this episode let's take a look at adding captions or watermarks to images using Preview. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with.
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