I'm looking for quick, yet professional looking ways of making text stand out on a photos which don't really have nice bland areas to put text. Something which would take an experienced photoshopper 5 minutes or less to do.

I found the image below as an example, but the text shadowing technique usually looks pretty amateurish.

What is typically done in advertising circles? Blurring of the image, dodging?

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VSbBv.png)