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Add a watermark to a photo

Stamp your name or site across a photo with full control over size, color, opacity and position. Tile it to make the mark impossible to crop out, and watermark a whole shoot in one batch. Nothing is uploaded, so even unpublished work stays private.

Runs in your browser Tile to stop cropping Full color and opacity control
How to use it

Watermark a photo in three steps

Every screenshot below is this exact tool tiling a mark across a real 1280px photo.

1

Drop your photos in

Drag one photo or a whole shoot onto the box. JPG, PNG or WEBP, and everything stays on your device, so even unpublished client work never leaves your computer.

The watermark tool with a photo loaded and the watermark step ready
A photo loaded and ready to mark.
2

Type your mark and choose Tiled

Enter your name or site, pick a corner or the Tiled option, and set the size, opacity and colour. Size is a percent of the image width, so a mixed batch of portrait and landscape frames all get a mark in the same visual proportion.

The watermark options with text set to a copyright line, position Tiled, size 5 percent, opacity 50 percent
Text set, position Tiled, 5 percent size at 50 percent opacity.
3

Add the watermark and download

Hit Add Watermark and the result appears with the mark blended into the pixels. Download the single photo, or a whole shoot as one ZIP. Here the tiled mark added a little weight, 213 KB to 239 KB, and covers every part of the frame.

The result row showing the watermarked photo, 213 KB to 239 KB, with the tiled mark visible in the thumbnail
The marked result, tiled across the whole image.
Single vs tiled

Why a tiled mark cannot be cropped off

A single corner watermark protects almost nothing. The other ninety-five percent of the image is a free, clean crop, and lifting the mark takes about five seconds. A corner credit is politeness, not protection.

Tiled mode draws your text in a rotated grid that runs past every edge of the canvas, so whichever rectangle someone crops out, part of the mark comes with it. There is no clean area left to steal. Choose by what the image is worth: a casual share can take a corner mark, but a client preview or paid work should be tiled.

Either way, the mark is not a layer sitting on top. At export the text is alpha-blended into the pixel values themselves at your chosen opacity, so nothing can switch it back off. Undoing a tiled mark means repainting the photo by hand.

Getting it right

The settings that decide how protected you are

Opacity 40 to 60 percent is the sweet spot: clearly visible without burying the photo. Push to 70 or 80 for preview images you want unmistakably claimed, and drop to 30 for a subtle portfolio credit.

Size 4 to 6 percent of the image width reads well on most photos. Go smaller for a quiet corner credit, larger for previews you want impossible to miss.

Colour should contrast with the photo. White works on most images; switch to black or a brand colour when the photo is bright or pale.

Honest limits

What this tool will not do

It is deterrence, not DRM

A determined editor with time can still repaint a tiled mark out. The point is to make theft more work than the image is worth, which stops the casual right-click-and-repost, not a专 professional forger.

Text only, no logo yet

You can use any text in any colour, but a logo image overlay is not available yet. It is one of the most requested additions, so ask on the contact page if you need it.

It marks, it does not hide

A watermark claims ownership; it does not conceal anything. To hide a face, plate or private detail, use the Blur and Pixelate tool, which destroys the pixels rather than covering them.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

A single corner watermark, yes, in about five seconds. That is exactly why the tile option exists: it repeats your mark diagonally across the entire image, edges included, so every possible crop still contains it. For anything you genuinely do not want lifted, tile it.

No. The text is blended into the actual pixels at your chosen opacity, so after export there is no separate layer to delete. Removing a tiled mark would mean manually repainting large parts of the photo, which is far more work than the image is usually worth to a thief.

Yes, and that is the workflow this tool is built around. Drop the entire shoot in one go, and the same mark is stamped on every photo at the same relative size, then download everything as one ZIP. Because size is set as a percent of width, portrait and landscape frames come out looking consistent.

Around 40 to 60 percent opacity is the sweet spot: clearly visible without burying the photo. For size, 4 to 6 percent of the image width reads well on most photos; go smaller for a subtle corner credit, larger for preview images you want unmistakably claimed.

Text only for now, in any color. A logo overlay is on the roadmap, and it is one of the most requested additions, so tell me via the contact page if you need it and it moves up the list.

Safer than any upload-based watermark site, because the photos never leave your computer. The marking happens in your browser through the Canvas API, so there is no server copy of the unwatermarked originals anywhere, which is the whole risk with online tools and pre-release work.

Related guides

Before you post the marked photos