Found a free open source alternative to the paid image editing tools and it actually renders text correctly

Been paying for various image editing subscriptions to mock up ad creatives quickly. Most of them work okay for basic stuff but the moment you need readable text inside an image, like a headline on a billboard mockup or copy on a poster, it all falls apart. Garbled letters, weird spacing, total gibberish. So I'd still end up in Photoshop fixing it manually, which defeats the whole purpose. A few weeks ago I came across LongCat-Image-Edit-Turbo from Meituan. The editing model is a distilled version built on top of their LongCat-Image foundation model.