Watermark your own photos and video
This is the reverse job, and the harder one. Dropping a mark onto an image takes a minute; placing one that deters copying without ruining the picture means trading visibility against removability against what it does to the composition.
The guides work through those trade-offs one by one, and the software is scored on the same bench that every remover on this site goes through.
Software that applies a mark properly
Weighted towards batch work, since branding a folder rather than a file is where these tools separate.
Torn between the two batch tools: Watermarkly vs Star Watermark puts a yearly licence and a one-off purchase side by side on the same photo set.
Decide what the mark is for before choosing a tool
Every setting that follows depends on this one answer, and it is the step people skip.
Asking for credit
A small signature, low in a corner, sized at a few percent of the frame. It identifies you to anyone who cares to look and comes off in seconds if somebody does not. That is an acceptable trade when the goal is being findable rather than being uncopyable.
Making reuse impractical
A mark tiled across the content at moderate opacity, crossing the subject rather than resting in the margins. It will look worse, and that is the mechanism working. Our removal testing is what tells us which arrangements genuinely resist, because it is the same tools doing the erasing.
Proving a file was yours
Neither of the above. A visible mark demonstrates nothing in a dispute, and an invisible payload plus dated originals in storage you control does the job a logo cannot.
How to mark work without wrecking it
How to add a watermark to photos
For anything over ten photographs the quickest route is Watermarkly. It batches without a ceiling, processes files inside your bro…
How to add a watermark to video
For a folder of clips, Star Watermark takes video and stills through one queue on a licence bought once. If you are already cuttin…
Invisible watermarking explained
An invisible watermark embeds an identifier in the pixel data itself, at an amplitude too small for anyone to see. Nothing about t…
Watermarks for photographers
Mark the proofs and leave the portfolio alone. A client gallery needs a mark heavy enough that screenshotting it is no substitute …