Add Watermark to Image

1. 1Add your image: Drop a photo onto the page or browse for one. It is read on your device — nothing is uploaded. Pro users can queue a whole batch.
2. 2Choose text or a logo: Type your watermark text, or switch to Logo and pick a PNG. Tokens such as {filename} and {year} fill in each image's own details.
3. 3Place it: Pick one of nine positions, drag the watermark anywhere on the preview, or switch to Tiled to repeat it across the whole picture.
4. 4Make it readable: Adjust opacity and size, then add an outline, a drop shadow or a backing panel if the photo underneath is busy or mixed in tone.
5. 5Apply and download: Press Apply and download the result at full resolution. With several images, download them all as a single archive.

A watermark ties a picture to whoever made it. It deters casual reuse, keeps your name attached when an image is reposted without a caption, and marks a file as a proof rather than a final delivery.

What a Watermark Actually Does

• Attribution that travels: Your name stays on the picture when the caption does not.
• Deterrence: A visible mark makes casual copying more effort than it is worth.
• Proofing: Clients can review a shoot without being handed the finished files.
• Brand presence: A logo in the corner turns every shared image into a small credit.
• Status at a glance: A tiled CONFIDENTIAL says what a filename cannot.

The two kinds solve different problems, and this tool treats them the same way: both scale proportionally, both rotate, and both can be placed or tiled.

Text Watermarks

Type any wording, on one line or several, in any of ten fonts and five weights. Tokens fill in per-image details automatically: {filename} inserts the image's own name, {date} today's date, {year} the year, and {index} its number in the batch. That turns a proof sheet for forty images into one run rather than forty.

Logo Watermarks

Upload a logo or signature and set its width as a share of the picture — from 2% to the full width. It scales up as well as down, so a small badge can become a large diagonal mark. A PNG with a transparent background gives the cleanest result; if yours has a white box behind it, remove the background first.

There are three ways to position a mark, and the right one depends on whether you are crediting a picture or protecting it.

Where to Put It

• Bottom right: The conventional credit spot — read last, rarely over the subject.
• Bottom left: Better when the composition puts detail on the right.
• Centre: Hardest to remove, most intrusive; use for proofs, not for portfolio images.
• Anywhere: Drag the watermark on the preview to a gap in the picture.
• Tiled: Repeated across the frame, so cropping cannot remove it.

A corner watermark has one weakness: it can be cropped off in a second. Tiling repeats the mark across the whole picture on a staggered lattice, so there is no clean area to crop to and no straight channel to clone along. It is the standard treatment for confidential documents, stock previews and client proofs.

Spacing

Spacing is set as a share of the watermark's own size, so it stays consistent whatever the image dimensions. Tight spacing protects harder and obscures more; wide spacing leaves the picture readable and still cannot be cropped away.

Angle

Rotating a tiled mark between about -20° and -40° makes it noticeably harder to remove, because the repeating pattern no longer aligns with the edges of the frame or with anything in a typical composition.

This is where batch watermarking usually goes wrong. A watermark measured in fixed pixels is a banner across a small thumbnail and an invisible speck on a large photo, so a batch of mixed sizes comes out looking careless.

Scale With Each Image

On by default. Sizes, margins and outlines are stored as a share of each image's own width, so every photo gets a watermark of the same relative size. A 6% mark looks identical on a 900px web image and a 6000px raw export.

Fixed Size

Turn scaling off when you want one exact pixel size everywhere — for instance when the images are already a uniform size and you are matching an existing template.

A watermark that cannot be read protects nothing, and one that dominates the picture defeats the point of showing it. These are the settings that decide the balance.

Opacity

• 30–50% suits a credit on a photograph: present, not distracting.
• 20–25% suits a tiled mark, because the repetition does the work instead of the strength.
• 70–100% suits proofs and confidential material, where being ignorable is the failure.
• Check the result against your darkest and lightest images, not just one.
• If a single opacity cannot work across a batch, add a backing panel instead of compromising.

Contrast

• An outline keeps light text readable over a light background without raising opacity.
• A drop shadow separates the mark from busy detail more gently than an outline.
• A backing panel is the reliable answer for a batch mixing bright and dark photos.
• Blend modes let the mark take on the picture's own tones: Screen for light marks, Multiply for dark ones.
• Keep one style across a set — a consistent mark reads as branding, a varying one reads as an accident.

The same tool covers several jobs that look different but need the same controls.

Photography

Credit portfolio and social images with a small outlined mark in a corner, and send client proofs with a large diagonal PROOF plus the file name, so nothing gets used before it is paid for.

E-commerce

Put a consistent logo on product photography so listings stay recognisably yours when they are scraped onto marketplaces. Proportional scaling keeps the mark even across a catalogue of mixed image sizes.

Content Creation

Add a handle or site name to blog images, thumbnails and social posts, so a screenshot of your work still points back to you.

Stock and Previews

Tile a mark across high-resolution previews. Buyers can judge the picture in full detail while the preview itself is not usable as a final image.

Reads JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, AVIF and ICO. Saves as JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF or BMP, or keeps whatever the original was. Every export is at your image's full resolution on both the free and paid plans.

Transparency

PNG, WebP and AVIF keep a transparent background. JPG and BMP cannot store transparency, so anything transparent is flattened onto white rather than the black that a naive export produces.

Animated Files

An animated GIF or WebP is watermarked on its first frame and saved as a still, and the tool says so rather than silently dropping the animation. To keep a file moving, build it in the GIF maker instead.

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