ImageElements Photo Captioner

ImageElements Photo Captioner is a feature-rich and intuitive tool designed to offer an easy way of creating interesting photo captions using gradients, shadows, various images and symbols to add a touch of personality to them. Some of the supported file formats are JPG, JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIF, ICO, TGA, GIF, PCX and PPM.

The program provides a user-friendly and accessible layout with a standard toolbar that contains most common functions, a panel with formatting tools on the left side of the window, a picture editor, and projects and objects tabs on the right.

When the app is run for the first time, it loads a predefined picture that can be easily changed by creating a new file and opening an image. To edit an item, all you have to do is select it from the objects tab to activate its corresponding functions.

You can insert various captions by typing in the desired text and choose the font type, style, size, color and angle. Plus, for each element, you have the option to set a shadow with depth and blur values, tint and direction, as well as a gradient and outline tones. For them to take effect you have to press the "Apply" button.

To make a specific selection, you can use the rectangle, star, circle or lasso tools. The tool lets you bring an object to the front or send it to the back, center, delete or duplicate it, and apply different customizations.

Last but not least, you can add arrows in various sizes, directions and thicknesses, along with cliparts, for which similar formatting elements are applied. The result is saved in JPG, PNG, BMP, TIF, TGA or PPM file formats. Unfortunately, there is no option to edit the images further using filters and effects, predefined symbols, or drawing tools.

Taking everything into account, ImageElements Photo Captioner is a handy and straightforward application that comes in handy when you want to design entertaining picture captions, enter cliparts and other images. During our testing, the tool didn't consume too many resources and didn't encounter issues.