Paint.net is good, but cannot easily draw Text with a white background?

Question

I have been using Irfan View for a few years but then saw Paint.net today here on Superuser.

It seems quite good except that when you write text, there seems to be no easy way to have a solid background, so the text blur into the photos and is not readable.

Is there any easy way to do that? (beside drawing a white rectangle first, which is not preferred because the size is unknown at first).

Answer 1

The only way I know of right now would be to create the text in a new layer above, then create a new layer below the text in which you draw a filled white rectangle. Then you can merge both again.

Answer 2

You could also format the text appear with an outline color which is different from the text color, then you don't need a white background rectangle to read the text. Most decent graphics tools can do that, surely Paint.net too.