Add text to image

Put a caption on your photo with exact position, size and color controls.

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Add text to image processes your input in this browser. Inputs and results are excluded from analytics. Recent tools save tool names, visit counts and last-visit times. Saved tools store only their names. Draft saving is optional and stays on this device; delete saved text with the draft controls. Loading text from a URL is optional and contacts that server; its URL and your IP address are visible to the server. An optional “Use in” action keeps a handoff in this tab. The next tool removes it on arrival and ignores it if more than a minute has passed.

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Choose an image

Your text

Position and appearance

Left position (%)

Top position (%)

Text size (pixels)

Text color

Your preview

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Reset reloads the tool with its starting values and releases open files and device controls. Saved drafts stay on this device until you delete them.

Links include your inputs and settings. Anyone with the link can see them, so leave out private text. Files and generated results are left out; random draws run again.

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Updated 2026-09-20

Place text on your image

Text is drawn onto the image at the chosen percentage position. Position starts at the upper-left corner; the text stays inside the image and exports with the picture.

Next: Color picker from image

A worked example

The example places “Made by me” at 10% from the left and 50% from the top of the 640 × 360 artwork.

Before you use the result

PNG, JPEG and WebP inputs are decoded by your browser. Animated files use their first frame. Color profiles can affect displayed colors; exports are rendered pixels, not the original metadata.

Next: Image resizer

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