Photo Text Editor

Add and style text overlays on photos for captions, watermarks, or branding. Ideal for social posts, portfolios, and quick image typography.

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About This Tool

Purpose-built for creating typographic overlays on images, this tool enables precise control over text content, font, size, color, alignment, and position. It supports multi-line captions, watermarks, and branded quotes, with options for opacity, stroke, and shadow to ensure readability on varied backgrounds. Conceptually, the workflow treats text as a separate layer that is composited over the base image, allowing independent adjustments without altering the underlying photo. This separation enables rapid iteration for social teams, photographers, and designers who need consistent typography across diverse assets. Use cases include social posts with captions, logo-like watermarks on product shots, or editorial image typography for portfolios. The tool emphasizes accuracy in line wrapping, bounds checking, and export fidelity (PNG/JPEG), while offering sensible defaults to minimize misalignment. Unique value lies in fast, deterministic typography rendering on images without requiring desktop design software, plus clear validation and error handling for common font or color issues. Core features include text content input, font family, font size, color, alignment, and position with optional wrapping, opacity, and simple styling. Advanced users can combine multiple text layers for complex compositions and export at standard social sizes. The backend logic ensures robust fallback for missing fonts or invalid colors and clamps positions to the image area to prevent overflow. This tool is valuable to marketing teams, photographers, and content creators needing scalable typography workflows that integrate with content pipelines.

How to Use

  1. Provide inputs: text_content, font_family, font_size_px, color_hex, and position_x_px/position_y_px.
  2. Set wrap_width_px and align to control line breaks and text alignment.
  3. Adjust opacity, stroke, and shadow to improve contrast on the image.
  4. Choose export_format and quality, then generate the final image.
  5. Download the output and review readability across platforms.
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What export formats are supported?
PNG and JPEG are supported for standard exports; PNG supports transparent backgrounds when the image frame is not filled. The tool preserves font and styling metadata where possible for downstream edits.
Can I use multiple text layers?
Yes. You can add independent text layers with separate font, size, color, and position. Layers can be reordered and toggled to refine the final composition.
How does wrapping and fitting work?
Wrapping uses a wrap width to break lines. If text exceeds the available height, the renderer can reduce font size within safe bounds or wrap more aggressively to maintain readability.
Does it preserve original image resolution?
Output resolution matches the specified target canvas. Downscaling preserves clarity; upscaling uses interpolation. Font and styling metadata are embedded in export when supported.

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