App of the week: Over

28 September 2012

On Facebook, I frequently see photos with captions right on the picture and I wonder how the caption got there. (I also wonder how people upload clips of TV shows onto You Tube, but that’s another question.)

I recently downloaded an app called Over designed to do just that. You open the app, take photo (or use one from your photo library, double tap the photo, and type the caption. You can choose from a limited selection of fonts, adjust the size and alignment and put it anywhere you want on the picture. Then you can email it or send it out via social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Here are a couple of examples. First, a picture of my dog, Kirby, being his adorable self.

Then, a photo of a sign I saw while walking Kirby the other day, captioned with the thought that went through my head when I saw it.

My parents have a Ceiva digital photo frame. I think Over will come in handy if I want to send a photo to it that requires a little explanation.

But more to the point, one of these days I’m going to take a photo, caption it using Over, put it on Facebook and watch it go viral. Okay, that may never happen. But at least that’s not because I don’t know how to put the caption on a photo!

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