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✅ Watermark Applied
Protect your images with a custom text watermark. Control position, size, colour and opacity — all in your browser.
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This tool overlays text onto an image — your name, a copyright notice, a website URL, or a "SAMPLE" / "DRAFT" label — with control over position, size, colour and opacity. It's a fast way to mark your images as your own before sharing them online, or to clearly label preview/draft content so it isn't mistaken for a final version.
Everything happens in your browser — your image is never uploaded to a server, so the watermarking process is instant and private.
A bottom-right or bottom-left corner watermark is the most common choice for portfolios and social media — it's visible without obscuring the main subject. A centred, often diagonal, watermark covering more of the image is harder to crop out, making it a better choice for preview images you want to protect from unauthorised use before a sale or payment.
Lower opacity (around 20-35%) keeps the watermark subtle, letting viewers focus on the image while still marking it as yours. Higher opacity (50% and above) makes the watermark much more prominent — useful for sample images where the goal is to make the watermark clearly visible and harder to ignore or remove.
No watermark is completely impossible to remove with enough time and the right tools, especially low-opacity corner watermarks. A higher-opacity, centrally-placed watermark significantly increases the difficulty and discourages casual misuse, but for genuinely sensitive preview content, also consider sharing only lower-resolution versions until payment or agreement is finalised. Always keep an unwatermarked original of your work in a separate, secure location.
What you put in a watermark sends a signal beyond just identifying the image's source. A simple name or initials feels like attribution — useful for portfolios where you want credit without making a strong statement about usage restrictions. A full copyright notice (© and year) is more explicit about ownership and rights, which can be relevant for stock photography, professional photography deliverables, or any image where the terms of use matter. "SAMPLE," "PREVIEW," or "DRAFT" labels communicate something different again — not so much about ownership as about the status of the image itself, signalling to anyone viewing it that this isn't the final or deliverable version. Choosing wording that matches your actual purpose — protection, attribution, or status — helps the watermark serve its intended function rather than just being decorative text.
If you're watermarking a series of images for a portfolio or gallery, using identical settings — same text, position, size, colour and opacity — across every image creates a consistent, professional appearance, whereas varying these settings between images can look inconsistent or unintentional. Since this tool applies settings to one image at a time, it's worth deciding on your watermark style once (perhaps testing it on one representative image first) and then applying those exact same settings to each subsequent image in the set, rather than adjusting the settings image by image based on how each one happens to look.
This tool focuses on text watermarks — names, URLs, copyright notices and similar. For logo overlays, a general image editor that supports layering would be needed to combine your logo with the photo.
The watermark itself doesn't reduce quality — it's drawn on top of the image. The output file size and quality depend on the format and quality setting you choose for downloading, similar to any image export.
This tool processes one image at a time, applying the same watermark settings, so you can repeat the process for each image while keeping your text, position and style consistent.
Around 20-35% opacity in a corner position is a common choice for portfolio and social media images — visible enough to identify the source without distracting from the photo itself.
No. The watermark is applied directly in your browser, and your image is never sent to a server.