Add Text to Photo

1. Open the image

   Bring the photo into the editor with “Choose image”, by dragging it in or by pasting with Ctrl+V.

2. Type the text and pick a style

   Write your line in the text field and select one of the six available fonts: Arial, Georgia, Impact, Times, Courier or Verdana. The size slider fits the text to the photo.

3. Color and outline

   Set the text color, switch on “Show outline” and choose a contrasting border tint: it's the trick that keeps lettering readable on any background.

4. Drag and download

   Move the text into position by dragging it with your mouse or finger, then hit “Download”. “Undo” starts you over from scratch.

Well-placed text turns a plain photo into content. The most frequent uses:

• Memes: big text in Impact, white with a black outline — the canonical format, readable even as a thumbnail.
• Invitations and greetings: a date and two lines in Georgia over a nice photo stand in for a printed card's artwork.
• Listings: "For sale" with the price on the product shot, updated opening hours on the storefront photo.
• Watermarks: your name or site in small type in a corner, to sign your images before publishing them.

If the result is headed for social media, check the correct proportions first in the social media image size chart: adding the text after fixing the format keeps the platform's automatic cropping from cutting it off.

Text on a photo has a single enemy: the background. White lettering on a bright sky or black on a dark jacket simply disappears. The countermeasures, in order of effectiveness. First: switch on “Show outline” and pick a border opposite to the text color — white with a dark outline reads practically anywhere, and it's the scheme subtitles have used for decades. Second: drag the text to a quiet area of the image — a sky, a wall, an out-of-focus zone — rather than over faces or busy textures. Third: be generous with the size, because on a smartphone an elegant but tiny caption is an invisible caption. If the photo has no calm corner, crop the framing to create one or darken the image slightly before writing: ten seconds that change everything.

Every typeface carries a tone of voice, and choosing it well is half the job:

Golden rule: one family per image. If you need two levels of importance, play with size and color instead of mixing different typefaces on the same photo.

The watermark is the tool's most professional use: photographers, shops and creators sign their images to discourage theft and stay recognizable as the files circulate. The proven recipe: your name or domain in Verdana, modest size, a light color with a barely perceptible outline, dragged into a lower corner — visible but not intrusive. It's worth remembering that the entire flow, from typing to saving, stays inside your browser: the photos of your kids or the company material you write on are never transmitted to any external service. Before publishing, the two classic steps remain: bring the file to the final dimensions the platform expects and compress it just enough for a fast upload without ruining the crispness of the text.

• Light text + dark outline (or vice versa)
• Quiet zone: sky, wall, blurred background
• Generous size: think of the thumbnail
• One font per image