# Insert Text

Gilles
Caulier

    caulier dot gilles at free.fr

Gerhard
Kulzer

    gerhard at kulzer.net

The digiKam image plugin Insert Text is a tool for adding text to an image.

KDE
Digikam

# Introduction

This is a handy plugin as it lets you add formatted text easily to an image wherever you want, at several places when needed.

## Using the Plugin

This plugin seems very intuitive to use. Type in your text and place it with the mouse. Use the block settings as you please. Choose the orientation, color from a color space, and fonts with all their properties. You will have to scale the font size to the image size, the larger the image, the larger the font has to be! Finally choose to add a border around the text and/or a semitransparent background. Voilà, it's finished!

Any text setting you have chosen can always be changed as long as you don't click the OK button. In saved and reloaded images the text has become part of the image, it can't be changed anymore.

## The plugin in action

The Insert Text dialog tool in action is shown below.

### The Insert Text Tool Dialog in Action