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What is the best Image editor for making memes or other kinds of edits? (hexbear.net)

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Tried GIMP but It takes 20 minutes to get white text with a black background and when I got it it looked awful

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Slightly easier way is:

Make the text the color and size you want, put it on the image where you want. Then: text to path. Then stroke path, in some color that strongly contrasts with the text. Like if the text is white, stroke in black. How wide the stroke should be depends on the size of the text and the resolution of your image, you may need to try a few times.

Then you're done, export to jpg or PNG.