How to make a meme
- Choose a background. Keep Your image and drop a picture onto the box (or tap to choose one), or switch to Plain colour and pick a colour and a Square, Wide or Tall canvas.
- Type your captions in Top text and Bottom text. Press Add text box for extra captions and drag them into place on the preview.
- Style the text. Set the Text size, the Text colour and the Outline colour, and choose whether to use ALL CAPS and shrink long text to fit.
- Pick PNG or JPG and press Download meme. The file is saved straight to your device.
Features
- Classic meme captions: top and bottom text in a bold condensed font with a thick outline that stays readable on any picture.
- Up to four extra text boxes that you can drag anywhere on the picture or move with the arrow keys.
- Adjustable text size from 5% to 20% of the picture's shorter side, so captions look right on any image size.
- Any text and outline colour, not just white on black.
- ALL CAPS switch for the traditional look, or keep your own capitalisation.
- Automatic wrapping and shrink-to-fit, so long captions stay on the picture.
- Plain colour backgrounds in square, wide and tall sizes for text-only memes and quotes.
- Live preview that updates as you type.
- PNG or JPG download with no watermark, at up to 2400 pixels on the longest side.
Why use Fileora to make memes
Most meme sites ask you to pick from their library of famous images, add their logo to your meme or make you sign up to remove it. Fileora is simpler: bring your own picture, add your words and download a clean file. There are no ads inside the image and no account.
Because the meme is drawn in your browser, photos of friends, family, pets or your workplace never leave your device. The controls are large enough to use comfortably on a phone, where most memes are made and shared.
When your meme is ready, you might want to trim a photo first with crop image so the subject fills the frame, or shrink a large download for sharing with the image compressor. For eye-catching captions in a social media bio or post, try the Instagram font generator.
Using pictures you have the rights to
A meme is still a picture that someone owns. Photos you took yourself, pictures from friends who are happy for you to use them and images released for free reuse are all fine to build on. Film stills, news photos, artwork and pictures of other people's products are usually owned by someone else, and sharing edited copies of them, especially for a business or advertising, can break copyright or personal image rights.
This tool doesn't include any meme templates for exactly that reason. If you'd like a text-only meme, the Plain colour background works well for quotes, jokes and announcements. Be kind with pictures of real people: a joke that's funny among friends can hurt when the person in the photo sees it shared publicly.
Tips for captions that read well
Short captions work best. Aim for a setup line on top and a punchline at the bottom, a few words each. White text with a black outline is readable on nearly any photo; on a very light picture, try dark text with a white outline instead.
Leave the faces and the main subject of the picture clear. Top and bottom captions are placed at the edges for that reason, and an extra text box can be dragged to an empty patch of sky, wall or table. If a caption keeps shrinking too small, split it between the top and bottom or lower the text size and switch shrink off to control the size yourself.