Caption software for Ubuntu

[justforadultstuff]

Hi,

I'm working on a tease and I want to caption pictures. On my phone I have Phonto, which allows me to add shadows to the text, making it more readable. Does anyone know of caption software for Ubuntu which can do the same?

[FrozenWolf]

GIMP is a great image tool for all sorts of things, although for what you need, it might be a bit of a 'sledgehammer to crack a nut'.
In this example, I used the '

Text

' tool to put some text on the image and then used:

  Filters -> Light and Shadow -> Drop Shadow...

.

In this example, I set the following shadow parameters:

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X: 0
Y: 0
Blur radius: 7.86
Grow Shape: Circle
Grow Radius: 7
Colour: 1d1c1c
Opacity: 1.5
Clipping: Adjust

I deliberately set the text colour to be very similar to the background to ensure that I could get it to stand out, but the text colour, shadow colour, shadow size, shadow offset, etc. can all be chosen to your preference.

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There might be a simpler tool to accomplish the same/similar effect in which case maybe someone else has a better suggestion.

[justforadultstuff]

Thanks, I'll try!