: What is the best way to label an image? I have an image which I would like to label certain areas with some sort of a text label. I'm trying to figure out what the best way is to make

@Michele215

Anything in the image is going to be distracting regardless of how the label is treated. If you wish to label objects without distracting from the image, then I think your best bet here would be drop the image into some kind of page layout app, or an application with simple page layout capabilities, and add labels around the edges of the image with leader lines pointing to the object in question. That's how we do it in our textbooks.

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@BetL875

A white or sky blue (eyedropper from the sky near the horizon) rounded rectangle set to about 40% opacity, under white or very dark green (eyedropper from the shadows) sans-serif text (Myriad Pro Light, for example) would work well.

You might add a one pixel opaque stroke to the rect, just to give it a tiny bit of prominence.

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