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add text or logo watermarks to photos with custom position, opacity, and tiling. 100% client-side — your images never leave your browser.

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What this tool does

Add a text or image watermark to any image. Position it anywhere, control opacity, scale, and rotation. Output as JPG, PNG, or WebP. Runs locally — your photos and your watermark do not leave the page.

What watermarks are actually for

A watermark is not a deterrent against determined image theft — anyone who wants to remove a watermark from a published image can do so with five minutes and a content- aware fill tool. Modern AI inpainting makes this trivial.

Watermarks do serve a few real purposes:

  • Attribution at scale. When your image gets shared across the internet, the watermark travels with it. A casual viewer learns who made it.
  • Friction against casual reuse. Even a removable watermark stops the laziest 80% of repurposing. A blogger looking for a hero image will skip watermarked options for clean ones.
  • Provenance and dating. A timestamped watermark establishes when an image was first published, which can matter in legal or journalistic contexts.
  • Brand recognition. A subtle logo on consistent content builds visual association over time.

Subtle vs prominent: pick a strategy

Subtle watermarkssit at low opacity in a corner — typically 20-40%. They are easy to crop out, but they preserve the image's visual impact and signal attribution to attentive viewers.

Prominent watermarks overlay the center of the image at higher opacity (60-80%). They are hard to remove without obvious damage, but they also degrade the image significantly. Used by stock photo sites for preview images, since the goal is to prevent free use.

Repeated tile watermarks place the same small mark across the image in a grid. Maximum protection against cropping, maximum visual cost. Used for documents with embedded confidentiality markings.

Position trade-offs

Bottom-right corner is the de facto standard for photo attribution — viewers know to look there. Bottom-left is less common but works equally well. Center placement prevents cropping but interferes with the image content. Edges are easiest to crop out; centers are hardest.

If protection is the goal

Pair a visible watermark with embedded EXIF metadata crediting you. The visible mark deters casual reuse; the metadata travels with the image even if the visible mark is removed, and shows up in any forensic check of the file's origin.

Browser-only

The watermark composite happens on a canvas in your tab. Your image and your watermark file are both processed locally and the output is downloaded directly. Nothing is uploaded.

What this tool does

Add a text or image watermark to any image. Position it anywhere, control opacity, scale, and rotation. Output as JPG, PNG, or WebP. Runs locally — your photos and your watermark do not leave the page.

What watermarks are actually for

A watermark is not a deterrent against determined image theft — anyone who wants to remove a watermark from a published image can do so with five minutes and a content- aware fill tool. Modern AI inpainting makes this trivial.

Watermarks do serve a few real purposes:

  • Attribution at scale. When your image gets shared across the internet, the watermark travels with it. A casual viewer learns who made it.
  • Friction against casual reuse. Even a removable watermark stops the laziest 80% of repurposing. A blogger looking for a hero image will skip watermarked options for clean ones.
  • Provenance and dating. A timestamped watermark establishes when an image was first published, which can matter in legal or journalistic contexts.
  • Brand recognition. A subtle logo on consistent content builds visual association over time.

Subtle vs prominent: pick a strategy

Subtle watermarkssit at low opacity in a corner — typically 20-40%. They are easy to crop out, but they preserve the image's visual impact and signal attribution to attentive viewers.

Prominent watermarks overlay the center of the image at higher opacity (60-80%). They are hard to remove without obvious damage, but they also degrade the image significantly. Used by stock photo sites for preview images, since the goal is to prevent free use.

Repeated tile watermarks place the same small mark across the image in a grid. Maximum protection against cropping, maximum visual cost. Used for documents with embedded confidentiality markings.

Position trade-offs

Bottom-right corner is the de facto standard for photo attribution — viewers know to look there. Bottom-left is less common but works equally well. Center placement prevents cropping but interferes with the image content. Edges are easiest to crop out; centers are hardest.

If protection is the goal

Pair a visible watermark with embedded EXIF metadata crediting you. The visible mark deters casual reuse; the metadata travels with the image even if the visible mark is removed, and shows up in any forensic check of the file's origin.

Browser-only

The watermark composite happens on a canvas in your tab. Your image and your watermark file are both processed locally and the output is downloaded directly. Nothing is uploaded.

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