How to add words to your pictures

Had a comment from Lawrence about how I add words to pictures, something like this...

Ahh yes... powerful crazy book of temptations

SO I thought of doing a step-by-step guide in how I do it, and hopefully it'll be of help to others...

Note: I am no pro photoshop fella, still don't know how to even use it so I only find methods in making life easier and more user-friendly~

Why do I add speech bubbles?? I guess it's to make others see what I want the picture to tell, which kinda makes the post a little more interesting, comparing to my posts 4yrs ago which had no speech bubbles there, it felt kinda dull I guess... oh well~~

The program I use is called Corel Paint, which is sort of like the set package that comes with Corel Draw, the functions are a little like Microsoft Paint, but I like to use it cause it just looks and feels cool~~ but the way I'm doing it is so same like Microsoft Paint that you could even do it there too =)When I open it I just choose "NEW" and select the size I want, for a Horizontal Image, I use Width 8 inches and Height 6 inches, but in Pixles.... it's 576 width and 432height~

AND for vertical, 5inches width and 8 inches height~ also known as 360width and 576height in pixles~~

Then appears the blank page~ so I just drop the image I have into it~

And yes you could see the image is too big for the small box~

So I line up the picture to match the box, also known as resizing~~ which also makes the file smaller, easier to upload into blogs

Now the picture size is just as same as the frame~

NOW the fun part, just go select the shape maker tool and make an oval shape...

Then use a paintbrush to draw it, making it into a speech bubble~ of course you're free to choose you're own favorite colors, but I like Black & White

Then the Text Tool, and write the words in the speech bubble, and change the font size to suit you're bubble~ for me I like the font "Complete In Him" go online search bah, there's lots of different fonts~

And erm... yeah you're done~ you could also write something on the picture to copyright it, also known as a watermark~

Of course it's much harder and frustrating when you have to do a few hundred pictures at once, and if you were to do a BATCH thingy on photoshop it would be faster, but why do I do this slow process???

Well the part which I came to like is the file size it becomes, 50+KB and photoshop makes it 400+KB, in which 50KB is SUPER fast when uploading to the internet, especially when blogging with a slow Malaysian speed internet that is faithful in failing you always~

Ahh sigh... hope this post has been helpful to you, if I have not made things clear and have made you blur, do inform me that I may modify it~~

But actually the process is easy... just make a speech bubble and add words =)