Add Text to Image

Sometimes you just need a few words on a picture – a caption for a social post, a title for a blog header, a date on a holiday photo or a quote on a background. This editor writes text directly onto your image with a live preview. Outline and shadow keep words readable on busy photos, and a semi-transparent box works well for longer captions.

Common uses

• Add captions and calls to action to social media images.
• Put titles on blog headers, thumbnails and presentation backgrounds.
• Label product photos, screenshots and diagrams.
• Write quotes or greetings on photos for cards and invitations.

Tips for best results

• White text with a black outline is readable on almost any photo.
• Keep captions short – three to eight words read best on mobile.
• Use the background box for long sentences over busy areas.
• Leave space at the edges because some apps crop images into squares.

Making text readable

Contrast is the key to legible text on photos. The outline option draws a dark stroke around each letter, the shadow adds a soft halo, and the background box places a coloured panel behind the words with adjustable opacity. Size is set as a percentage of the image width, so the text looks the same on a small phone photo and a large camera image.

Fonts and styles

Choose a clean sans-serif for captions, a serif for elegant titles, Impact for bold headlines, or one of the handwriting fonts for invitations and personal notes. Handwriting fonts are open-licensed and load only when selected. Rotation up to 45 degrees is useful for stamp-like labels and playful designs.

Your photo stays on your device

The text is rendered with the browser canvas, so the picture is never uploaded. This is handy for private family photos and unreleased marketing images.