Add Text to Image

1. Open a photo. A text box saying "Your text" is placed in the middle, already selected.
2. Type your own words in the panel. Press Enter for a new line.
3. Choose a font, size and colour, and switch on bold, italic, an outline or a shadow if you need them.
4. Drag the text on the photo to move it. Use the corner handles to make it bigger or smaller, and the round handle above it to rotate it.
5. Press Download and choose PNG, JPG or WebP.

Press Add text for each extra text box, for example a title at the top and a credit at the bottom. Each one can have its own font and colour.

• Outline: a thin dark outline around light text (or a light one around dark text) keeps words readable on busy photos. It is on by default.
• Shadow: a soft drop shadow lifts text off the background without a hard edge.
• A box behind the text: open Shapes, add a rectangle or speech bubble, and use the Layers panel to move it below the text. Lower the shape's opacity for a see-through band.
• Placement: put text over calm areas such as sky, walls or empty floor rather than over faces or detail.

There are eight fonts: Inter, Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet, Georgia, Times, Courier and Impact. Together they cover clean sans-serif, classic serif, typewriter-style monospace and a heavy headline font. Because fonts come from your device and browser, the same font can look slightly different on another computer or phone. The downloaded image always shows exactly what you see in the preview, because the text is drawn into the picture.

• Click or tap any text on the photo to select it again and change it.
• Undo and redo up to 50 steps with the buttons at the top, or Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z.
• The Layers panel lets you hide, lock, reorder, duplicate or delete text boxes and set their opacity.
• Hold the compare button to see the photo without your text.

For colour adjustments, filters, cropping or drawing as well, open the photo in the full Advanced Image Editor, which uses the same text tools.

• JPG gives small files for photos and is accepted everywhere.
• PNG is lossless and is the best choice when the text must stay perfectly sharp.
• WebP gives small files with good quality, but some older apps cannot open it.

You can set the output width; the height follows. Location and camera data from the original photo are not included in the download.

Everything runs in your browser. Your photo and your text are not uploaded. Work is not saved between visits, so download before you close the page.