How to Put Text on Pictures

On Windows

1. Open Start

   . Click the Windows logo in the bottom-left corner of the screen.

2. Type paint into Start. Doing so will search your computer for the Paint program, which you can use to add text to your preferred image.

3. Click Paint. It's a palette-shaped icon at the top of the menu. The Paint window will open.

4. Click File. This is in the top-left corner of the Paint window. Clicking it prompts a pop-out window to appear.

5. Click Open. It's near the top of the pop-out menu. A File Explorer window will open.

6. Click your picture's folder. On the left side of the File Explorer window, click the folder that contains the photo to which you want to add text.

   1. For example, if the picture is on your desktop, you'd find and click the Desktop folder.

7. Select a picture. Click the picture to which you want to add text to select it.

8. Click Open. You'll see this in the bottom-right corner of the File Explorer window. Doing so opens the photo in Paint.

9. Click A. It's in the "Tools" section of the toolbar at the top of the Paint window.

10. Create a text box. Click and drag your mouse across the section of the photo on which you want to add text, then release the button.

    1. You can also just click the photo to place a pre-sized text box on it.

11. Enter your text. Type in the text that you want to place on your photo.

    1. You can edit the text's font, size, and formatting by selecting the text and then using the tools in the "Font" section of the toolbar.
    2. To change the color of the text, click a color in the "Colors" section of the toolbar.

12. Resize your text box if necessary. Click and drag one of the corners of the text box down and out to do so. This is helpful if you created a text box with regular text and then resized the text later.

13. Save your photo's text. Click File, then click Save in the resulting menu. This will save the changes to the original photo.

    1. If you'd rather save the photo with text as its own file, click File, click Save As, and enter a new name in the "File name" box before clicking Save.