Add Watermark to Image
Put your name, website or copyright on any photo, as one mark you drag into place or a pattern repeated across the whole image.
One photo or a whole batch. JPG, PNG or WebP, processed on your device and never uploaded.
Choose photosHow to watermark an image
Drop your image
Drag in one or more JPG, PNG or WebP photos. They stay in your browser and nothing is uploaded.
Type your watermark text
Name, URL, copyright notice — whatever you want to protect or label the image with.
Customize
Adjust position, opacity, font size and color until it looks right.
Download
Preview looks good? Save it. The watermark is baked into the image file.
Why watermark your images?
If you share images online — whether you are a photographer, designer, content creator or just someone who makes things — watermarking is the most basic form of attribution. It ties the image back to you.
A visible watermark does not make your image uncopyable. Nothing does. But it makes it harder for someone to pass your work off as their own, and it puts your name or URL in front of anyone who sees the image wherever it ends up.
Keep the opacity somewhere between 20 and 40 percent for a professional look: high enough to be legible, low enough not to ruin the image. The bottom right corner is the most common position, visible but out of the way. For previews and proofs, a tiled pattern is far harder to remove.
What a watermark can and cannot do
It is worth being clear about this, because watermarks are often expected to do more than they can. A watermark makes casual reuse inconvenient and identifies the source when an image travels. It does not make the file impossible to copy and it does not stop a determined person from removing it.
What it does well is the everyday case: someone saves your photo, reposts it, and anyone who sees the repost can tell where it came from. That is a real and useful outcome and it is the reason photographers still bother.
What it does not do is provide protection through the file itself. Any visible mark can be cropped, cloned out or covered. Treating a watermark as attribution rather than as security leads to better decisions about how it should look.
The opacity trade off
Every watermark sits somewhere on a line between invisible and ruinous, and both ends fail.
Most people land between 30 and 50 percent for finished work, and go much higher for client proofs where the whole point is that the preview should not be usable as a final image.
Placement decides whether it survives
A mark in the bottom right corner is the convention, and it is also the easiest thing in the world to crop away. If the image is likely to be reposted, a corner mark is the weakest choice available.
A mark placed across the middle of the subject is far harder to remove, because removing it means removing part of the picture. It is also more intrusive, which is exactly the trade you are making.
Tiling the mark repeatedly across the whole frame is the strongest visible option in general, which is why stock libraries use it for previews. This tool does both: a single mark you drag anywhere on the photo, or a tiled pattern that repeats your text across the whole frame at any angle.
If you want attribution without spoiling the image, a small mark near the centre bottom, inside the safe area rather than at the very edge, survives most crops while staying out of the way.
Keep the original
A watermark is drawn into the pixels and cannot be peeled off later. Always keep the clean file. If you need a different mark, a different size, or no mark at all for a print, you will need that original, and there is no way to recover it from the watermarked copy.