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Leslie66
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5 years ago

Adding captions directly on photos stored in Dropbox

I have a few hundred photos stored in Dropbox that I need to add captions to. There must be a way to type direcly on the image. Having the caption over in the comments section would not work.  I co...
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5 years ago
Leslie66 wrote:

I have a few hundred photos stored in Dropbox that I need to add captions to. There must be a way to type direcly on the image.

Dropbox has no such feature.

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Leslie66
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

Rich,

Thank you for your quick response, although it was not the answer I was hoping for. Maybe I can copy the photo out of Dropbox, put it in a Word document, and add the caption in Word. 

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