How to manage images and create captions in OS Touch best joomla slider?

Basic settings on the site when installing the joomla responsive slider

In OS Touch Slider it's possible to configure slideshow right on the Frontend of your website and see changes immediately. Let's have a look how to add images to joomla responsive slider, manage them and add captions to images.

1. After installation of OS Touch Slider, go to Extensions -> Modules -> OS Touch Slider
2. Choose module position and assign module to necessary menu items
3. Publish module OS Touch Slider
4. Go to the frontend area of your website and log in there

On the Frontend of the website you will see blank joomla slideshow (don't forget to log in on the Frontend). To open the configuration panel and start adding captions you should:

General view of the Joomla slider

1. Hover the future slideshow and click on the sign

2. To upload images in the joomla slideshow you may drag and drop them into special section or click on the upload button and choose one or several images from your PC


You can reorder images in joomla slideshow simply by dragging them. By hovering image it's possible to edit it or delete.

3. After you uploaded an image or several pictures in the OS Touch Slider you can edit them. On the editing tab, you can set the slide time and adjust various aspects Blur, Shades of gray, Hue , Brightness and many others.

4. You can add any tex on the joomla responsive slider, depending on the purpose of the slide.

5. Hover the image and click on the Edit button and then on Add text button. In the opened panel you can add caption to the chosen slide, as well as customize caption and it's block. Also here you can customize the animation that will occur with the appearance of text. How to do it you can see here How to animate text in OS Touch Slider.


Basic settings best joomla slider using text

6. The text what you write in the OS Touch Slider at once can be seen on the picture, edit and change the location.

7. On the bookmark Edit you can set the font size text in the picture on best joomla slider.

8. Also on the bookmark Edit you can change the writing style of the text.

Font Family : selection from 20 the most popular and beautiful Google Fonts - Open Sans, Roboto, Slabo, Lato, Roboto, Condensed, Oswald, Source Sans Pro, Montserrat, Raleway, Roboto Slab, Lora, PT Sans, Josefin Sans, Dancing Script, Satisfy, Cookie, Playball, Great Vibes, Rochester, Lobster


9. Also on the bookmark Block you can put the text in the frame and resize the frame itself, first select the size of the frame on the Border Width and then you can adjust its width, height and also where the text will be located on the joomla responsive slider.This can be done with the help of Text Padding and Text Block Width.

10. Also on this tab you can round the corners of the frame. This can be done with the help of Border Radius.

11. Also on this tab you can change the border color. This can be done with the help of Border Color.

12. Also on this tab you can change the color inside the frame. This can be done with the help of Background Color.

13. On the Animation tab, you can select various special effects that you can apply with text, specifying the exact time the beginning and end of the special effect. While best joomla slider are changing, you can apply various animation options with text. You can also apply this if you instead text insert a picture.

OS Responsive Touch Slider allows adding any HTML caption, from simple text to video and audio. It's possible to customize the style of text using styling options. Check out the examples of captions created in OS Touch Slider: Caption Variation 1, Caption Variation 2, Caption Variation 3, Caption Variation 4, Your Custom Variation

In OS Touch Slider it is also possible to insert any HTML code into slide, for example images, links and videos/audios. See tutorial How to embed video from YouTube in OS Touch Slider