6. A method comprising: receiving a plurality of images and text associated with the plurality of images, in a social networking system, wherein the plurality of images are part of a photographic album; determining a plurality of configurations, wherein each configuration of the plurality of configurations comprises the plurality of images arranged in a different order; determining whether to overlay the text onto the plurality of images in a particular configuration based at least in part on one or more attributes of one of the plurality of images, one or more attributes of the text, and any combination of attributes of the text and attributes of the plurality of images, the determining comprising: combining the text with each configuration of the plurality of configurations and computing a respective readability score for that combination, the readability score indicating measure of a likelihood of a user of the social networking system is able to read the text when overlaid onto the group of images in the respective configuration, comparing the readability scores with a threshold value to determine whether to overlay the text onto the group of images in the particular configuration; and selecting the configuration having the highest readability score; generating a story including the selected configuration and the text, based on the comparing, wherein if the readability score the selected configuration of the plurality of images equals or exceeds the threshold value, the text is overlaid onto an area of the selected configuration, and if the readability score for the selected configuration is less than the threshold value, the text is positioned adjacent to the selected configuration of the plurality of images; and providing the story to a client device associated with the user the story including the text and the selected configuration of the plurality of images in a format based on the comparison.
6. A method comprising: receiving a plurality of images and text associated with the plurality of images, in a social networking system, wherein the plurality of images are part of a photographic album; determining a plurality of configurations, wherein each configuration of the plurality of configurations comprises the plurality of images arranged in a different order; determining whether to overlay the text onto the plurality of images in a particular configuration based at least in part on one or more attributes of one of the plurality of images, one or more attributes of the text, and any combination of attributes of the text and attributes of the plurality of images, the determining comprising: combining the text with each configuration of the plurality of configurations and computing a respective readability score for that combination, the readability score indicating measure of a likelihood of a user of the social networking system is able to read the text when overlaid onto the group of images in the respective configuration, comparing the readability scores with a threshold value to determine whether to overlay the text onto the group of images in the particular configuration; and selecting the configuration having the highest readability score; generating a story including the selected configuration and the text, based on the comparing, wherein if the readability score the selected configuration of the plurality of images equals or exceeds the threshold value, the text is overlaid onto an area of the selected configuration, and if the readability score for the selected configuration is less than the threshold value, the text is positioned adjacent to the selected configuration of the plurality of images; and providing the story to a client device associated with the user the story including the text and the selected configuration of the plurality of images in a format based on the comparison. 9. The method of claim 6 , wherein the one or more attributes of one of the plurality images, the one or more attributes of the text, and any combination of attributes of the text and attributes of the plurality of images are selected from a group consisting of: a likelihood of obscuring faces in a first image of the plurality of images by overlaying the first image with the text, metadata associated with the first image indicating that the first image has been digitally altered, homogeneity of one or more areas of the first image, a number of characters included in the text, a size of the text, an indication the image includes existing text, location tags associated with the image, a resolution of the image, dimensions of the image, and any combination thereof.