Add text to images

Using Extreme Thumbnail Generator you can easily draw as many phrases on your images as you wish. The Text elements list contains all phrases that will be drawn on every image in the project.

• Add button lets you add a new text element

• Remove button removes currently selected text element

• button moves the selected text element up in the list

• button moves the selected text element down in the list

When you select a text element in the Text element list, its properties are displayed below the list. Every text element has the following properties:

• Text - text phrase that will be drawn on every image in the project. It can contain Special tags

• Font - the font that will be used to draw the text

  • Font name - the name of font

  • Size - font size in pixels

  • Color - font color. Clicking the button will open the Select color dialog to help you specify the color

  • Style - font style: Bold, Italic, Underline, Strike out. If none of these checkboxes checked, then font style is Regular

  • Transparency - font transparency. 100% means that your text will be fully transparent (invisible), 0% - not transparent at all

  • Select font - opens the Select font dialog that helps you to select font name, color and style

• Position - specifies the position of the text element on the image

  • Alignment - defines the position of text relative to the image border. The table below shows all available alignments:

  Top-left Top-center Top-right Center-left Center Center-right Bottom-left Bottom-center Bottom-right

  
  
  

  • X offset - space in pixels between your text and image border in width direction

  • Y offset - space in pixels between your text and image border in height direction

• Background - specifies the optional background under your text

  • Draw background rectangle under the text - if checked, then a rectangle will be drawn underneath your text

  • X margin - space in pixels between the left and right edges of background rectangle and your text phrase

  • Y margin - space in pixels between the top and bottom edges of background rectangle and your text phrase

  • Color - color of the background rectangle. Clicking the button will open the Select color dialog to help you specify the color

  • Rectangle corners rounded - if checked, then the background rectangle will have rounded corners

  • Transparency - background rectangle transparency. 100% means that the background rectangle will be fully transparent (invisible), 0% - not transparent at all

  • Border - lets your background rectangle have a border

    • Width - width of border in pixels. If width is 0 , then there will be no border

    • Color - color of background rectangle border. Clicking the button will open the Select color dialog to help you specify the color

• Don't draw text on thumbnails If this box is checked, then all text elements will appear only on full-size images, not on thumbnails.

After you have added one (or more) text elements you can see exactly how your images will look like using the Preview button at the bottom of the window. Clicking this button will open an Image preview window if your project contains images.

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