Draws one line of text on top of an image at a chosen size, colour and position (centre or one of four corners). The result is saved in the same format as the original file.
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Type your text, pick a size and a colour, and drop it in the centre or any of the four corners.
There is no free positioning and no dragging: the five anchor points are the whole layout system. That keeps it quick for the common jobs, which are captioning a screenshot, labelling a photo before sending it, or marking an image as a draft. For anything that needs precise placement or several separate pieces of text, an image editor is the right tool.
Colour is the only contrast control, so choose a corner where the picture behind is plain.
White text over a bright sky vanishes, and dark text over a shadow does the same. Because there is no outline or drop shadow to fall back on, the reliable approach is to look at your image first and pick the corner with the flattest, most uniform area. Failing that, white on a dark photograph and near-black on a light one are the safest defaults.
The size is in pixels of the image, so the same value looks very different on a small graphic and a large photo.
Thirty-two pixels is comfortably readable on an 800-pixel-wide image and nearly invisible on a 4000-pixel camera file. If the text comes out tiny, the image is larger than you assumed rather than the setting being wrong. A rough guide is to aim for something between a fortieth and a twentieth of the image width, then adjust once you have seen it.
Once saved, the words are pixels like everything else and cannot be edited, moved or removed.
Always keep the original image. Changing a typo means starting again from that original, and there is no layer to switch off. This also means the text is not selectable or searchable, and will not be read by anything that scans for text — which is a drawback for accessibility and an advantage if the point was to stop the words being copied.
No. The text is always drawn in bold Arial, or the browser's default sans-serif if Arial is missing. Only the size, colour, position and wording are adjustable.
No. The text is drawn as a single line, and it is not shrunk to fit. If the line is wider than the image, the ends are clipped. Reduce the font size or shorten the text; a large font on a small photo is the usual cause.
Font size is in pixels of the image itself, not relative to its dimensions. A 32 px line is small on a 4000 px wide photo, so raise the slider up to 120 px for high-resolution images.
No. The text is solid and fully opaque with no outline or shadow, so pick a colour that contrasts with the area behind it. If you need semi-transparent marks, the image watermark tool has an opacity control.
No. The text is drawn on a canvas in your browser and the finished file is generated locally.