Text Tool

The text tool is used to draw text on the image. Just choose your font, size, and text style, type some text into the box and click "place text". Alternately, you can click and drag a rectangular area on the image into which you want the text to be drawn.

You can use a drop shadow by checking drop shadow. This will cause a second copy of the text to appear underneath the original when you place the text. The main text color is the color on the left, and the drop shadow is the color on the right. Drop shadows look particularly nice when you use alpha blending on them.

You can choose a gradient, which will fade between the left and right colors; however, this doesn't work well with a drop shadow since both the original text and the drop shadow will use the same gradient.

I will admit that the interface of this tool is somewhat un-intuitive, but I don't think I'll get around to improving it in the near future.