About the Add Watermark tool
Protect your photography and designs with a text watermark — a single corner mark or a diagonal tile across the whole image. Adjust opacity so it protects without distracting.
Both the photo and your logo are processed locally. Watermarking usually means the image is unreleased work, which is exactly when you do not want it sitting on someone else's server.
How to use it
- Add your image or a batch of them.
- Add text or upload a logo, then set opacity and position.
- Download the watermarked files.
What a watermark can and cannot do
A watermark discourages casual reuse and identifies the source when an image is reshared. That is genuinely useful.
What it cannot do is prevent theft. Anyone determined can crop or edit it out. Treat it as attribution rather than protection, and never as a substitute for keeping your originals.
Placement and opacity
Corner watermarks are unobtrusive but trivially cropped away. A larger, low-opacity mark across the center is far harder to remove but competes with the image itself.
Around 30–50% opacity is the usual compromise: visible enough to read, faint enough not to ruin the picture.
Common mistakes
- Placing the watermark in a corner that will be cropped by a square-format platform.
- Setting opacity so high the watermark dominates the image.
- Watermarking your only copy rather than an export.
Questions people ask
Where should I place it?
Corners are least intrusive; a centerd, faint mark is hardest to remove. Choose based on how much you care about each.
What opacity works best?
30–50% is the usual range — readable without overwhelming the image.
Can I watermark many images at once?
Yes. Add the batch and the same settings are applied to all of them.