A photo watermark says where a picture came from. A small name in the corner signs your work, and a faint logo repeated across a proof makes it hard to use without asking. You can watermark an image here with your own words or your logo, and do a whole set of photos in one go.
This free watermark maker lets you choose Text or Logo, put the mark in one of nine places or repeat it across the picture, and set its size and opacity. It runs in your browser, so your photos and your logo stay on your device, and there is no account. Below, each setting is explained, with starting points for common jobs.
How to watermark photos
- Press Select images, or drop one or more pictures onto the page.
- Under Watermark, keep Text and type your name, or pick Logo and add your logo file.
- Under Placement, keep One and pick a cell under Position, or choose Repeat across.
- Set the Size and the Opacity. With Repeat across, set the Gap and the Angle too.
- Keep Save as on Original, or pick JPG, PNG or WebP, then press Add watermark.
- Save the result. Its name ends in _watermarked.
The stage shows the watermark where the file will have it, at the opacity you chose. Until there is a mark, it shows © Your name in faded letters, or a dashed Your logo box, so you can judge the place and size before you type or add anything. With Repeat across, the stage shows the same pattern the file will get.
Text or logo: choosing your mark
Watermark, at the top of the panel, switches between the two kinds of mark. Placement and Opacity work the same for both, and Size follows the kind of mark you pick.
A text or copyright watermark
Text takes one line of up to 80 characters: your name, your studio or a short word such as Proof. Choose Inter Bold or Anton under Font, and White or Ink under Colour, or any other colour from the + swatch.
For a copyright watermark, type © before your name, as the stage's © Your name suggests. Both fonts draw the © sign. No © key on your keyboard? Copy it from this page and paste it in.
Shadow, on by default, adds a soft dark shadow under the letters, so white text still reads on a light part of the photo. Switch it off for a flatter look on a plain background.
Add a logo to a photo
Logo takes a PNG, JPG, WebP or SVG file. A PNG with a transparent background works best: only the logo itself is drawn, with no box around it. A JPG has no transparency, so its background is drawn too. If your logo comes on a white box, remove the white background first and save it as a PNG.
- An SVG logo is turned into pixels first, at twice the largest size it can be drawn, so its edges stay sharp.
- The logo keeps its own shape as you change its size.
- It stays loaded if you switch to another tool and come back, and it is cleared when you press New picture.
- If the file cannot be read, the panel says That logo cannot be opened here. Try a PNG or JPG.
One mark or a repeating watermark
Placement decides how many marks you get. One puts a single mark in the cell you pick under Position, a small margin in from the edges it touches: 3 % of the picture's shorter side. Bottom right is the default, the usual place for a signature.
Repeat across fills the whole picture with the mark, in a grid turned to an angle. Two more sliders appear. Gap sets the space between the marks, from 0 to 200 % of the watermark's size. Angle tilts the pattern from −45° to 45°, and starts at −30°.
| One | Repeat across | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | A single mark in one of nine places | The mark repeated over the whole picture |
| Its own settings | Position | Gap and Angle |
| Easy to crop away | Yes, a crop can cut off a corner | No, it covers every part of the picture |
| Good for | Signing photos you share | Proofs, drafts and previews for clients |
A mark in one corner looks tidy, but anyone can crop it off. A repeating watermark at a low opacity still lets people judge the picture, while making it much harder to reuse.
Size and opacity that work
Size depends on the kind of mark. For text, it is the height of the letters, from 2 to 20 % of the picture's height, starting at 5 %. For a logo watermark, it is the logo's width, from 5 to 60 % of the picture's width, starting at 18 %. Opacity runs from 10 to 100 % in steps of 5, and starts at 60 %.
| Job | Placement | Size | Opacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| A quiet signature on a photo | One, Bottom right | Text at 3 to 5 % | 50 to 70 % |
| A logo on product shots | One, a corner cell | Logo at 10 to 20 % | 70 to 100 % |
| A proof for a client | Repeat across, Gap 60 %, Angle −30° | Text at 4 to 6 % | 20 to 35 % |
| A draft that must not be reused | Repeat across, Gap 20 to 40 % | Text at 6 to 10 %, or a large logo | 40 to 60 % |
Watch the stage as you move the sliders. A mark that is clear on a dark sky may vanish on snow, so check it on the lightest and the darkest part of the photo before you press Add watermark.
Batch watermark your photos, privately
Select up to 100 pictures and the watermark maker marks them all in one run. Each one gets the same mark at the same share of its own size: a logo at 18 % is 18 % of each picture's width, so it looks the same on a small picture and a large one. The button counts them, for example Watermark 20 pictures, and Save all as ZIP saves the results together.
Save as Original keeps a JPG as a JPG and a PNG as a PNG; an iPhone HEIC photo becomes a JPG. JPG and WebP are saved again at high quality, and PNG keeps every pixel. The saved picture is drawn fresh, with no location, camera or date details, which is worth knowing before you post photos taken at home.
- The watermark is drawn in your browser. Your photos and your logo are never uploaded, and our server does no picture work.
- It is free, with no account, and it adds no mark of ours. Image tools are not counted in the free daily limit, which applies to document conversions only.
- It works in current Chrome, Edge and Firefox. For clips, Watermark video puts your mark on a video.
To write a caption or a title rather than a mark, use Add text to image, or create a meme with a line at the top and the bottom. To make a large batch lighter for the web afterwards, try Compress image.
Watermark your pictures now
To watermark an image, choose Text or Logo, pick One and a Position or Repeat across, then set the Size and Opacity and press Add watermark. Every picture in a batch gets the same mark, and each result ends in _watermarked.
This watermark maker is free and private, whether you add a watermark to a photo or to a hundred. Select your pictures above to start, and read how we treat files on our privacy page.
