Adding text to bottom of photos

Hey everyone. I'm looking for a way to add text to a bottom of a picture. I guess I'm looking for something a bit like a watermark, but I'd prefer if the program would add a black strip to the bottom of the picture and place the text on top of that, so not to damage the original image content (I could then crop out the black strip and text later if need be).

I know I can do this is MS Paint, but it will be tedious for numerous photos. I also know other programs can imbed text in the picture file, but not everyone has programs to read the data and I'd like to make it as universal as possible.

Any ideas?

 

XnView: Start in Browser mode, select your photos, open the Batch Processing window (CTRL+U or via the Tools menu), set an output directory, then go to the Transformations tab. Add Image/Canvas resize to the list, and configure it to give you a black bar at the bottom (make the Height value bigger than the existing image, set Position to Top-Center, and background colour to black). Then add the Image/Add text transformation and configure it the way you want, click Go.

There's no preview so you'll have to figure out font size and positioning with a bit of trial and error, but once you have found settings that work for you, they can be saved as a script.


Just one example, most image editors/converters that support some sort of batch processing or scripting should be able to do this in more or less convoluted ways.

 

Thanks, I'll give it a try tonight!