: What I really would like is an editable text layer above the background. : I have thousands to do and it's part of a larger complex action. Irfanview des not handle layers, it's more a gross image editor / batch processor so if you'll need to edit the text constantly, a lyaer application would be the best way to go the thought was if it were a final step in a large process with a single layered output image, and you had lots to do, whatever other steps could be done elsewhere and the text addition as a final step could be done quickly and lastly in irfanview maybe this advice might help: http://jingyeluo.blogspot.com/2006/10/photoshop-action-and-batch-to-waterma rk.html karl
