Watermark your own work
The other half of this site. Adding a watermark is easy; adding one that is worth having is a set of trade-offs between how visible it is, how removable it is, and how much it costs the photo.
The guides below cover those trade-offs, and the tools are scored on the same five criteria as every remover we rate.
Best watermarking software
Re-weighted for batch work, because branding a set of files is the job that separates these tools.
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How to add a watermark to photos
The fastest route for a batch of photos is Watermarkly: the paid plan handles hundreds of images in one queue, processes them in y…
How to add a watermark to video
For a batch of clips, Star Watermark handles video and images from the same queue on a one-off licence. If you are already editing…
Invisible watermarking explained
An invisible watermark embeds an identifier in the pixel data itself, at an amplitude too small to see. Nothing about the image ch…
Watermarks for photographers
Mark the proofs, not the portfolio. A client gallery needs a mark heavy enough that screenshotting it is not a substitute for buyi…