Wanted - Photo Captions - Help

I don't know if this is the place to ask, but I am looking for a simple picture utility that can add some text to a photo, outside of it, & then save it back as just a regular jpg or whatever it started as. IOW, it would add a footer, a strip to the bottom of the photo with text in it. I can get Good Frame (which I found here) to do that, sort of, by creating a wide frame & moving the signature down into it. I'd rather not take up the other 3 sides with the same frame thickness & would like to be able to make the text smaller, though.

I'd also like it to be more automatic - open picture, click 'add caption', type, & have the footer automatically grow to fit the text, but always leaving the original photo alone, just expanding the canvas. A button to put in the date of the picture would be nice, too. Then automatically 'Save As' into the same directory. I could add a character before or after the file name to show it had been annotated or could even save over the original.

I have thousands of photos & then got more from my uncle not long before he died. That really brought home the problem of not knowing who or what was in a photo. Half the time the photos are named by the camera with nonsense names. I file them in directories by date, often rename them to mean more, but that's kind of a pain & doesn't help a lot when there are several people in the photo. I'm sure I'm not the only one out there with this problem. I've heard others express the same wish.

It used to be I'd write on the back of a paper photo or under the photo in the paper album. Now I can't do that easily, except by listing them all & describing them in a text file kept in the same directory. I'd like to view a picture & see the details at the same time. I know there is photo album software out there that will do it, but I've seen too many of those come & go over the years. Formats like .jpg or .bmp will always be readable or easily converted because there are so many of them out there. Like .gif files were one of the few things I could port & keep from my Atari days.

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