Photo captions, also known as cutlines, are a few lines of text used to explain or elaborate on published photographs.

Captions more than a few sentences long are often referred to as a "copy

Copy (written)

Copy refers to written material, in contrast to photographs or other elements of layout, in a large number of contexts, including magazines, advertising, and book publishing....

 block". They are a type of display copy. Display copy also includes headline

Headline

The headline is the text at the top of a newspaper article, indicating the nature of the article below it.It is sometimes termed a news hed, a deliberate misspelling that dates from production flow during hot type days, to notify the composing room that a written note from an editor concerned a...

s and contrasts with "body copy", such as newspaper article and magaziness.

External links

• Material from a university photojournalism course