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Photo to Text: Turn Your Photo Into a Picture Made of Words

Your photo

Tips for the best picture

Move the mouse over the picture to read your words. On a phone, keep a finger on the picture.

Your photo is only used to make your picture. It is never published.

  • Use a sharp, well-lit photo where the faces are large.
  • Crop close: the less background, the more words fit on the faces.
  • A longer text gives a richer texture; short words read more easily up close.
  • Light, soft backgrounds make the words stand out.

Photo to text: your picture, built from your own words

Most photo to text tools do the opposite of what you want: they read the text inside an image (OCR). This one rebuilds your photo with your words. The photo gives the shape, the light and the shade; your text fills every line of it, in the order you wrote it.

A mother and her baby, eye to eye, made of a letter to her newborn
Up close, every line can be read.

From across the room it is your photo; up close, every word can be read. Use it for wedding vows, the lyrics of your song, a letter to someone you love, or the names of a whole team.

The preview is free and takes a few seconds. When you like it, order it as a high-resolution JPG, emailed at once, or as a mounted print in 15 sizes, printed edge to edge on a rigid panel and shipped free worldwide.

How it works

  1. Upload your photo

    Choose a photo and crop the part you want drawn: faces large, little background.

  2. Write your text

    Type or paste your words: vows, song lyrics, a letter, a poem or a list of names.

  3. Choose background and letters

    Pick a background, a font and a letter size, and see your picture made of words in seconds.

  4. Order it

    As a high-resolution JPG emailed at once, or as a mounted print shipped free worldwide.

Ready to see your words become a picture?

The preview is free and takes a few seconds.

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