How do I add a watermark to a photo?

Drop the photo, type your name or add a logo, drag the mark where you want it, then download. There is nothing to install and no account to make. A batch of up to 50 works the same way, with one placement shared across all of them.

Can I watermark several photos at once?

Yes, up to 50 files in one go. The mark is stored as a proportion of each image rather than a pixel size, so it lands in the same relative spot whether a file is 800 pixels wide or 6000. One file saves on its own; a batch comes down as a ZIP.

Can I use my own logo instead of text?

Switch the mark type to Logo and add your file. A PNG with a transparent background is best, because it sits on the photo as a mark rather than a rectangle. A JPG logo works too, but it brings its own solid background along with it.

Will a watermark stop people stealing my photos?

No, and no watermark does. What it does is make casual reuse awkward, keep your name attached when the image gets reposted, and raise the effort needed to pass the work off as someone else's. Tiling the mark across the frame raises that effort further, but someone determined can still remove it.

Does adding a watermark reduce image quality?

The photo is re-encoded once when you save. JPG output is written at high quality, which is fine for sharing. If the file will be edited again afterwards, pick PNG or WebP instead so no generational loss builds up.

Where should the watermark go, and how big?

Bottom-right at about 5 percent of the shorter edge is the default because it stays readable without covering the subject. Move it over the subject or tile it when the image is likely to be cropped, since a corner mark is the easiest thing to cut away.

Are my photos uploaded anywhere?

No. The mark is drawn on your own device with the browser's Canvas API, so the image data never leaves the page. Once the page has loaded you can switch the network off and it still works.

Can I remove a watermark with this tool?

No. This tool adds watermarks. Stripping a mark off an image that belongs to someone else is not something we build, so there is no removal mode here and no plan to add one.

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What a watermark actually buys you

A watermark puts your name on your own work. It will not stop someone determined from cropping or painting it out, and any tool that promises otherwise is selling you something. What it does do is make casual reuse awkward and keep your name attached when the image travels — reposted, screenshotted, dropped into a deck. For proofs sent to a client, that is usually the whole job.

Two kinds of mark cover almost everything. Text is your name, your handle or a copyright line, and it needs nothing but typing. A logo is a PNG of your mark with a transparent background, which reads as a brand rather than a signature. Switch between them here without losing your placement, so you can see which one suits the photo.

Placement is where batch watermarking usually falls over. Set a mark 200 pixels tall and it disappears on a 6000-pixel camera file and swallows an 800-pixel web crop. Everything here is sized as a proportion instead — of the image's shorter edge — so one setting gives every file in the queue a mark at the same scale, sitting the same distance in from the edges, whether it is a wide camera file or a tall phone shot.

Text or your logo

Type a line, or drop a transparent PNG of your mark. Swap between them and your placement stays put.

Drag it anywhere

Nine snap positions, or pull the mark to the exact spot. The preview runs the same code as the export.

Fifty photos, one placement

Set the mark once and stamp the whole shoot. The batch comes down as a ZIP.

When a watermark earns its keep

Client proofs

A photographer sends a contact sheet before payment clears. The mark says these are previews without ruining the view.

Marketplace listings

Product shots get lifted and reposted by competitors. A branded corner makes the theft obvious to buyers.

Property listings

Room shots syndicated across portals carry the agency mark, so the listing stays traceable to whoever shot it.

Draft documents

A scan stamped DRAFT or COPY before it circulates, so nobody signs the wrong version by mistake.

Artwork and illustration

A signature that survives a repost to a feed, keeping your handle visible when the caption gets stripped.

Course and deck screenshots

Internal material marked before it leaves the team, so a leaked slide is easy to trace back.

Built for a folder of photos, not one

Proportional sizing, so the mark lands right on every size in the batch
Tile the mark across the frame when a corner would just get cropped off
Opacity, rotation, color and size, all live on the preview
HEIC from an iPhone, files up to 100 MB, PNG transparency kept

How to add a watermark to a photo

Drop your images
One photo or fifty. JPG, PNG, WebP and HEIC straight off a phone all open here.
Build your mark
Type your name or add a logo, then set size, opacity, rotation and color. Tile it across the frame if a corner is not enough.
Drag and download
Pull the mark where you want it and save. A batch downloads as a ZIP with the placement matched across every file.

Five things worth knowing

Tip 1:
A corner mark is the first thing a crop removes. Tile it, or put it across the subject, if it needs to survive one.
Tip 2:
Around 20 to 40 percent opacity reads as a signature. Past 60 it reads as a fence. Pick by who is looking.
Tip 3:
White with the shadow on works over both dark and bright photos. White with the shadow off vanishes into a sky.
Tip 4:
Use a PNG with a transparent background for a logo. A JPG logo brings its own white box with it.
Tip 5:
Watermark last. Resize and crop first, or the mark gets scaled and softened along with the photo.

Watermark questions

Image Resizer

Resize to exact pixels, percentages or presets before you add the mark.

Bulk Image Resizer

Resize a whole folder at once and download the set as a ZIP.

Image Compressor

Shrink the file size of your watermarked photos before you upload them.

Image Converter

Move between JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC and more in one pass.

Circle Crop

Crop a photo to a circle with a genuinely transparent background.

Stamp the whole shoot

Drop your photos, set the mark once, download the set. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.

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