Place Text Behind People — Free, No Upload

Drop in a photo and AI cuts the subject out so your text sits behind them. Full resolution, no watermark, and it runs entirely in your browser — the image is never uploaded.

Text-Behind-Subject Effect, Free

Made for YouTube thumbnails, Instagram posts, posters, album art and title cards — anywhere bold typography should sit behind the subject instead of covering them.

The text-behind-subject look is the one where huge type runs behind a person's head and shoulders so they appear to step out in front of the words. Doing it by hand means masking the subject in Photoshop; here the cutout is automatic. Drop in a photo and an AI segmentation model, running locally in your browser, separates the person from the background in a couple of seconds. Type your text, pick a font and weight, and drag it into place — it renders behind the subject in real time, with size, rotation, letter spacing, colour, stroke and drop shadow all adjustable. Segmentation is never perfect on wispy hair or a busy background, so an erase/add brush is built in to clean the mask edge by hand. Because the model runs on your own machine, your photo never leaves your device: there is no upload, no account, no queue and no watermark on the way out. Export is a lossless PNG at the original resolution, ready for a 1280×720 thumbnail, a print poster or an Instagram crop.

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