Add Watermark to a Photo

Drop a photo onto this page, type your watermark text — your name or a copyright notice — choose position, size, opacity and colour, and click Add watermark and download. It is drawn onto the image in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

No. The watermark is drawn entirely in your browser, on your own device. Your photo is never sent to a server, stored, or shared, and once the page has loaded it even works offline.

The bottom-right corner is the convention — visible but unobtrusive. A centred watermark is much harder to crop out, at the cost of sitting over your subject; photographers protecting client proofs often use it deliberately.

Around 60–80% reads clearly without dominating the photo. Lower it toward 40% for a subtle signature; keep it high for proofs you don't want reused.

Corner watermarks can be cropped away, and editing tools can attempt to erase any watermark. It deters casual misuse rather than preventing determined theft — which is why pairing it with an invisible EXIF copyright is a good habit.

They complement each other. A watermark is visible to everyone but alters the image; EXIF copyright is invisible, keeps the photo clean, and is what professional workflows read. Use the Add Copyright tool on this site for the metadata side — many photographers apply both.

The image is re-encoded once at high quality (JPEG 92%; PNG stays PNG), which is visually indistinguishable for normal use. Dimensions are unchanged. Always keep your unwatermarked original.

It is removed. Drawing the watermark redraws the image, producing a clean file without the original's hidden metadata — including any GPS location. Embed authorship in metadata separately with the Add Copyright tool if you want it.

Yes — the watermark is drawn as pixels, so any character works, including ©. (This differs from EXIF metadata fields, which are ASCII-only.)

Yes, completely free, with no account and no upload. For photo metadata tools on iPhone and iPad, the EXIF Viewer by Fluntro app is a one-time purchase.