Add a Text Watermark to an Image
Stamp your name, brand or © notice across a photo — once or tiled edge to edge. Size, opacity, color and angle all adjustable.
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This image watermark tool stamps text across your photo — once, in a corner or center, or tiled edge to edge. Size, opacity, color and angle are all adjustable, and the watermarked image downloads straight from your browser.
The watermark is drawn into the image as clean text, so it prints and scales without the blur of image-overlay watermarking.
Why Use This Image Watermark Tool?
- Single stamp or full tile — protect one spot or the whole photo
- Full control — size, opacity, color, angle and position
- Real text rendering — crisp at any zoom, prints cleanly
- Private — watermarked in your browser, no upload
- Free, no signup, no watermark of ours on your image
How to Add a Watermark to an Image — 3 Steps
- Drop your image into the box above and wait for the preview.
- Type the watermark text and set the layout — single (with a position) or tiled — plus size, opacity, color and angle.
- Press the blue Add Watermark button and download the watermarked image.
Watermarking Photos So They Actually Help
A watermark has two jobs: marking status (draft, proof, sample) and attaching your name to work that will travel. Both depend on restraint. The classic photographer's watermark sits in a lower corner at moderate opacity — clearly present, clearly attributable, and not fighting the image for attention. The tiled layout is the heavier hand: text repeated across the entire frame at low opacity, the standard defense for proof sheets and stock previews where the recipient should be able to see the image but not present it as their own.
Opacity is the dial that decides success. Full-strength text across the middle makes a photo useless; 10% opacity disappears on bright backgrounds. The workable range for a single stamp is roughly 30–60% in white or black depending on the background, and 15–30% for tiles, where the repetition adds up visually. The angle control exists mostly for the diagonal look — 30–45 degrees is the recognizable "proof" style.
Honesty section, same as on the PDF watermark tool: a visible watermark deters, it does not protect. Anyone with an editor can crop a corner stamp or clone over a tile; a determined actor defeats any visible mark. Watermarking is one layer — for work that must not be reused at all, keep the original offline and publish only small previews.
The text is rendered as real type in a standard sans-serif, so it stays crisp at every zoom level and in print — no JPEG-in-JPEG fuzz. Output keeps the input's format (JPG stays JPG, PNG keeps transparency), and the whole job runs in your browser with no upload.
Frequently Asked Questions
A visible watermark can be edited out by someone determined — it deters casual reuse, it does not prevent it. Tiled watermarks are far harder to remove than a single corner stamp.
Single (corner or center) for published photos where the image must stay enjoyable. Tiled at low opacity for proofs, previews and anything you do not trust the recipient with.
30–60% for a single stamp, 15–30% for tiles. Test on the brightest part of your image — that is where faint watermarks disappear.
One image per pass. The settings stay the same between runs, so each photo takes ten seconds.
Yes — it is rendered as text into the image, so it prints exactly as it appears on screen.
No — the watermark is drawn in your browser and the download comes from your device.