Add a Watermark to Your Photo
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What this watermark tool does

This tool writes a line of text on your photo. It is a text watermark: your name, a social handle, a website or a copyright notice. It does not add logos or images.

You control five things.

Text is up to 60 characters. The default is © Your Name.

Position places it in any corner, in the center, or tiled in a repeating pattern across the whole photo.

Opacity runs from 10% to 100%. Lower values are subtle; higher values are hard to miss.

Text size runs from 2% to 12% of the photo's shorter side, so it looks the same on a small file and a large one.

Color is white by default, with black and amber as quick picks, or any color you choose.

The text is drawn with a soft shadow, so it reads on bright skies and dark shadows alike. A before and after slider lets you compare. Everything happens in your browser.

How to add a copyright watermark to a photo

1. Choose your photo. 2. Type your text. A common format is © 2026 Your Name. A handle such as @yourname or a short website works too. Keep it short; long text gets small and hard to read. 3. Pick a position. Bottom right is the classic spot. Tiled protects the whole picture. 4. Set the opacity. Around 40–60% is visible without spoiling the photo. For client proofs, go higher. 5. Adjust the size in Advanced. 3–5% suits a corner mark. For a center or tiled mark, try 6–10%. 6. Pick a color. White suits most photos. Use black on bright, pale images. 7. Press Add watermark, drag the slider to compare, and download.

The © symbol is a notice, not a registration. It tells people who owns the image and how to find you.

Where to place a watermark

Placement is a trade-off between protection and looks.

Corner. Tidy and unobtrusive. It credits you when the photo is shared, but anyone can crop it off in seconds. Good for social posts and portfolios where the aim is credit, not protection.

Center. Harder to crop out without ruining the photo. It does cover the subject, so keep the opacity low. Good for previews you send before payment.

Tiled. The text repeats across the whole photo. It is the hardest to crop or paint out and the most visible. Good for proofs, stock previews and anything you would not want reused without permission.

Whichever you choose, avoid putting a corner mark over plain sky or wall where it is easy to clone out. Near detail is harder to erase.

No visible watermark is impossible to remove. It raises the effort and makes your ownership clear.

Watermarking for sellers, photographers and creators

Photographers. Mark proofs with a tiled or centered watermark at medium opacity. Clients can judge the photos but cannot use them before the final delivery. For portfolio posts, a small corner mark gives credit without spoiling the image.

Online sellers. Put your shop name in a corner of product photos. If a copycat listing reuses them, the mark points back to you. Check your marketplace rules first, as some ban watermarks on main listing images.

Artists and illustrators. A handle in a corner helps people find you when your work is shared. For work-in-progress previews, a tiled mark discourages reposting.

Anyone sharing personal photos. A faint name across a photo of your home or car makes it less useful to someone who wants to reuse it in a fake listing.

Keep the same text, size and position across a set. It looks deliberate and builds recognition.

Watermarking Unpublished Work Privately

Your photo never leaves your device. The watermark is drawn with your browser's own canvas. Your photo is read from your device, marked in memory and handed back as a download. Nothing is uploaded or saved on our servers.

That point matters more for a watermark tool than most. You watermark a photo because you want to protect the original. Uploading the clean, unmarked original to a free website first defeats the purpose. Many online watermark tools do exactly that.

Here, the only copy that ever leaves your device is the watermarked one, and only when you choose to share it. A free sign-in, which you need after the first few downloads, does not change this. Signing in never sends your photo anywhere.

Free watermark tool vs the paid AI upscaler

The free watermark tool adds a text mark to your photo on your device, with six placements, opacity, size and color. Processing is unlimited. The first few downloads need no account, and then a free sign-in keeps them coming.

The paid Imagera upscaler is for the version you actually publish. It enlarges a photo and uses AI to add fine detail, for large prints, portfolio pages and high-resolution delivery. It runs in the cloud, uses credits and can process a batch of images at once.

A common workflow is to upscale the final photo first, then add the watermark here, so the mark is drawn crisply at full size. Or watermark small previews here and keep the upscaled originals for paying clients.