This is really cool, I found it on a youtube video. You can place text on your images right in Leopard using Textedit and Preview. Here’s how:

Open Textedit, type a suitable label or string of text. Set the font as you desire (cmd+t), go to “File -> Print” and choose “Open PDF in Preview”.

Now using the “choose Tool” choose the text (draw a box around it)

and press (cmd+k) to crop. Save the cropped PDF as a PNG image (File -> Save As)

Now with the saved PNG image, hold the mouse button on the choose tool until the drop down menu appears, and choose “Instant Alpha”.

The image will now let you choose the background portions to remove. visit on each white area until they are […]

Orginal post by James