Hi! Book written, can't seem to get title on cover!

Hi! Well, so many of you were instrumental in motivating me to write an e-book. I've written a short one, and want to get it up and running tonight. I'm using one of my photos for the cover; all I want to do is float the text (title and maybe my name as author) over the photo. There is a focal point on the photo, and I'd like to match the text to that; other than that, that's it! However, I've now spent 2 hrs fooling around w/MS Word ('08 version) and can't figure out how to do this! I've imported photo to a basic Word doc, double-clicked on photo to get layout and put photo behind text, used the Word preset text styles to get a text box (but don't like the color) and did manage to get part of the title on the cover, but it wouldn't fit it all in and wouldn't wrap it.
So, now I figure, well, I'll just put the 1st three words and put three dots . . I'm really desperate to get this up tonight - long story.
But I would like the color of the font to match the color of this one focal point item in the pic .

Any suggestions welcome! Thank you!

Hi, there. Gimp isn't avail. w/Mac; used Inkscape, got pic uploaded - all I want to do is type the title and then, in another place on cover, my name - can you give me a hint how to start? All these buttons! The "cover" is just the photo, bled to edges. Just want to type over it.
Also, I am going to use KDP Select Amazon - does anyone know what size JPEG I need?

Thanks so much!

Thanks, Brian and Gale!

OK, all, I somehow figured out how to do a cover -- but inkscape doesn't allow me to save as .jpeg!!!
What alternative can I use if I'm going to be publishing to Amazon KDP Select? Thx!!

Hello, again. Well, between the time I last wrote and now, somehow the text moved over -- I don't know how, and I can't get it back where it was. Suggestions? Thx.