Give your photos a translucent title

There is a clever effect in the free image editor Gimp that converts text into a translucent effect.

Open the base image and press T to switch to the text entry mode. Draw a box where you want the text to appear. Select the font and size, and leave the colour as black.

Type in the Text entry box and click on Close when you are finished. Click on the Filters Menu, Light and Shadow and then Xach effect. Leave the options as they are for now and click on OK.

When the filter has finished, you will need to hide the original text. Click on the Layers tab in the Toolbox, it looks like a stack of three sheets of paper. Click on the eye icon next to the layer with a T icon and your text.

The translucent effect will now be visible.
Tom Saunders