Free Watermark Maker – Text or Logo on Photos

Watermark Maker

Add a watermark to your photo online, free, client side — protect your work with a logo or text.

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Marking Your Work Before It Goes Public

The moment a photo or design leaves your hands — posted to a portfolio, sent to a client for review, shared in a group chat — it can be copied and reused without credit. A visible watermark, even a subtle one, is the simplest deterrent, and this tool stamps text or a logo image onto your photo entirely in-browser before you download it.

How the Stamp Is Applied

The tool loads your source photo onto a canvas, then draws your chosen text (with adjustable font size, color, and opacity) or an uploaded logo image on top at the position you pick — corner, center, or repeating pattern for stronger protection. Because this is a canvas composite operation rather than a metadata tag, the watermark becomes part of the pixel data itself, which means it survives re-saving, screenshotting, and most re-uploading to social platforms that strip metadata.

A Practical Example

A freelance photographer delivering low-res preview images to a client before the final invoice is paid types their studio name at 40% opacity, sizes it to roughly 8% of the image width, and positions it bottom-right — visible enough to discourage misuse but not so bold it ruins the preview. For stronger protection against someone attempting to crop the watermark out entirely, switching to the repeating/tiled position places the same text diagonally across the full frame instead of one corner.

Common Situations This Solves

Photographers sending proofs before a client pays in full. Small business owners protecting original product photography from being lifted by competitors. Freelance designers sharing draft mockups in a portfolio where they don't want the concept copied outright. Even casual sellers on marketplace apps use a simple watermark to discourage their listing photos being reused elsewhere.

Opacity and Placement Trade-offs

A corner watermark at low opacity (20-30%) is barely noticeable and easy to crop out — fine for internal review copies where trust is already established. A centered or tiled watermark at higher opacity (40-60%) is much harder to remove without visibly damaging the image, which is the right call for anything being posted publicly online where anyone could screenshot it.

What a Watermark Won't Do

A watermark deters casual reuse; it doesn't provide legal copyright protection on its own — that comes from actually owning the copyright, which you do automatically the moment you create original work, watermark or not. It also isn't tamper-proof: a determined person with editing software can remove a light corner watermark. For genuinely sensitive images, use a bolder, centered, or tiled watermark.

Processed Entirely On Your Device

Both your source photo and any logo you upload are handled with client-side JavaScript inside the browser tab — nothing is transmitted to a server, so client proofs or unreleased product photography never leave your machine before you're ready to share them yourself.

Can I use my own logo image instead of typed text?

Yes — upload a PNG logo (ideally with a transparent background) and position it the same way as text, adjusting its size and opacity independently.

What opacity actually deters someone from cropping the watermark out?

Corner watermarks are easiest to crop regardless of opacity — for real deterrence against cropping, use the centered or tiled/repeating position instead of a single corner.

Does the watermark survive if someone takes a screenshot?

Yes, because the watermark is composited into the pixel data itself rather than stored as separate metadata, it appears in screenshots the same as the rest of the image.

Can I remove a watermark I added by mistake?

Not with this tool — once the watermark is baked into the downloaded image, you'd need your original unwatermarked file and would need to re-export from that source instead.

Will the watermark look pixelated on a large photo?

Text watermarks scale cleanly at any resolution; a logo image watermark's sharpness depends on the resolution of the logo file you upload, so use a high-resolution logo for large photos.

Batch Watermarking Multiple Photos

If you're watermarking an entire shoot rather than one image, set your text, size, opacity, and position once, then process each photo with the same settings before downloading — keeping the placement and styling identical across a gallery looks more professional than eyeballing position separately on each image, and takes only a few seconds longer per photo since the settings carry over.