Add Watermark to Image
Add watermark to image or photo online, free and with no signup. Drop your picture and the text tool is already open, so you can type your name, a copyright line or a signature, or drop in a logo instead. Then place it, fade it, and download. Nothing is uploaded. Up to 25 MB.
Drop the image you want to watermark
Type your name or drop a logo, then set where it sits and how faint. Or press Ctrl + V to paste one straight from your clipboard. PNG, JPG or WebP, up to 25 MB. Edited in your browser, never uploaded.
Sign Your Work.
Keep Your Files.
There is an irony in most watermarking tools: you upload the unwatermarked original to a server you have never heard of, so that it can hand you back a copy you can safely share. This one does the work in your browser, so the unprotected version never travels.
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All free, all in your browser, no signup.
How to put a watermark on a photo
Three steps, no account, 25 MB per image.
Drop your image
Drag a PNG, JPG or WebP onto the box, or press Ctrl+V to paste one from your clipboard.
Type your mark, or add your logo
The text tool is already armed, so click and type your name or copyright line. For a logo, open the image panel and drop your PNG in instead.
Place it, fade it, download it
Drag it into the corner or across the middle, rotate it, drop the opacity until it reads without shouting, then export.
Text watermarks
Add a text watermark to a photo
A text watermark is the fastest kind to make and the easiest to get wrong, and the difference is almost entirely opacity and placement.
Click on the image and type. Then the three decisions that matter: how big, how faint, and where. Big enough to read at the size people will actually see the photo, faint enough that it does not compete with the subject, and somewhere a casual crop will not remove it.
- Opacity: Somewhere between 30% and 60% suits most photos. Below 25% it stops deterring anyone; above 70% it is no longer a watermark, it is a caption.
- Placement: A corner is unobtrusive and trivially cropped out. Across the middle is ugly and effective. For proofs, use the middle; for published work, use a corner.
- Legibility: Turn on the outline if the corner you chose has a busy background. A watermark nobody can read is decoration.
- Rotation: A diagonal mark across the frame is harder to crop or clone out than a horizontal one at the edge.
Logo watermarks
Add a logo watermark to an image
If you have a logo, use it. It carries recognition that a name in a typeface does not, and it survives being seen at thumbnail size better than small text does.
Open the image panel, upload your logo, and place it. A transparent PNG is what you want here: the transparency survives the whole edit, so the logo sits on the photo rather than inside a white rectangle.
If your only logo file is a JPG, it has a solid background baked in and there is nothing any tool can do about that on this page. Export a PNG from wherever the logo was designed, or use a text watermark instead. We would rather say that than hand you a white box and let you find out at the end.
Logos usually want lower opacity than text, because a shape reads as an intrusion faster than letters do. Start around 40% and go from there.
Copyright and signatures
What to actually write in a copyright watermark
Most tools hand you a text box and no opinion. Here is the opinion, because the wording matters more than the styling.
- For photography: (c) 2026 Your Name. The year and the name is the whole job. Adding "All rights reserved" changes nothing legally in most of the world and makes the mark longer.
- For social reach: Your handle, not your legal name. @yourhandle is something someone can act on; a copyright line is not.
- For client proofs: PROOF or SAMPLE, large and diagonal. The point is that the file is unusable as-is, so subtlety is working against you.
- For a signature: Your name in a script face, small, in one corner, at higher opacity than a protective watermark. This is a signature on a print, not a deterrent.
A note on the copyright symbol: type (c) and most fonts will render it as text rather than the glyph. If you want the real character, paste it in.
Honest scope
What a watermark protects, and what this page does not do
Two pieces of honesty that every other result for this search leaves out.
First, on protection. A visible watermark deters casual reuse: it makes a photo awkward to repost and it tells anyone who finds it who made it. It does not prevent theft. Anyone determined can crop it, clone it out, or run it through a removal tool. If your work genuinely cannot afford to be copied, a watermark is one layer of several and not the load-bearing one.
Second, on scope. This places one mark where you drag it, at the opacity you choose, on one image at a time. It does not tile a repeating pattern across the whole picture, and it does not batch a folder of 200 photos. If that is what you need, this is not yet the tool, and we would rather you knew now than after uploading anything.
A tiled, batched watermark tool is on the roadmap. Until it ships, what is here does the single-image job properly and does not pretend to do the other one.
Text or logo, placed exactly where you want it.
And nothing of ours in the corner.
Opacity that goes where you need it
A watermark works when it is readable and ignorable at the same time. Slide it down until it sits in the photo rather than on top of it, at whatever level that turns out to be for your image.
Text or a logo, or both
Type a name, a handle or a copyright line, or drop in a PNG logo with its transparency intact. Nothing stops you doing a logo in one corner and a URL in the other.
An outline for busy photos
A pale watermark disappears over a bright sky and a dark one vanishes in shadow. A stroke around the letters keeps it legible wherever it lands, which is why this option exists at all.
Rotate it to any angle
Diagonal across the middle is the classic proofing mark. Spin the layer to whatever angle you want, at whatever size.
Your original never leaves
Your browser opens the file and draws on it. The unwatermarked version is not sitting in someone's temporary folder, because it was never sent anywhere.
No watermark of ours
No signup wall, no export limit, and no second logo added by the tool. Which should not be worth mentioning on a watermarking page, and is.
Frequently asked questions
How watermarking works here, and where it stops.
Drop your photo on the box above. The editor opens with the text tool already armed, so click where you want the mark and type your name, handle or copyright line.
Then set the size, drop the opacity to somewhere around 40%, rotate it if you want it diagonal, and press Download. For a logo instead, open the image panel and upload your PNG.
Free, and no. No signup, no export limit, and nothing of ours added to your image. A watermarking tool that stamps its own logo on your photo has misunderstood the assignment.
All three, up to 25 MB. You get the same format back unless you deliberately pick another on the way out, so a watermarked PNG stays a PNG and keeps any transparency it had.
Not as one action, no. This places a single mark where you put it. You can duplicate the layer a few times and space them out by hand, which is fine for three or four and tedious past that. A proper tiled watermark is on the roadmap.
Not yet. This is one image at a time. Batch watermarking is a different tool and it is on the list; saying so now is better than you finding out after dropping 200 files in.
It stops casual reuse, which is most reuse. It does not stop someone determined, because a mark in a corner can be cropped and a faint one can be cloned out. A diagonal mark across the middle is much harder to remove and much uglier, which is the trade-off: use it on proofs, not on published work.
Between 30% and 60% opacity suits most images. The test is whether you can read it without looking for it, and stop noticing it once you have. If the background is busy, turn on the text outline rather than raising the opacity, or you will end up with a mark that fights the photo.
No, and this is the point on a watermarking page. Your browser opens the file and draws on it locally. The unprotected original is never sent to a server, never sits in a temporary folder somewhere, and never reaches us.
Yes. Tap to place the text, type, and drag it into the corner. A larger screen is easier for fine placement, but there is nothing to install either way.
Watermark your image now
Drop the photo, type your mark or add your logo, place it and download. Nothing gets uploaded and nothing of ours gets added.