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This more and more common technique can help you fill an empty spot in your photo and add a little splash to your page. Here’s what Contributing Editor Carrie Colbert Batt recommends.

Use image-editing software to add a text layer to your photo and print the photo at home or at any commercial lab that can accept a CD or other digital storage device. Annie Weis did this for her layout shown here. But I don’t always plan my pages far enough in advance, so I’ve come up with a new technique.

Align the text you want to appear on your photograph and computer-print it on a blank transparency designed for ink-jet printers. (If you don’t have a home printer, visit a photocopy center and ask the staff to print out your saved file, or find a shop that has computers for rent and create your text right there.) Then simply slide the transparency into the page protector in front of the photo or finished layout. It will look just like you printed it directly on the image!

Continued on Page 17: How can I print my text directly onto a 12”-wide piece of paper?

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