PhotoShop Slides for Narthex Announcements

I can't get my text to align with my photos, so I'll describe all of them here at the top.  These are 2 slides I made last night for our announcements.  First is the flag photo I began with (from CreativeMYK.com) and then the resulting slide.  The second is the little man I started with and that resulting slide for the Church-wide barbeque