Watermark Photos (Text or Logo)

About the Watermark Photos (Text or Logo)

Protect and brand your photos by adding a text or logo watermark — to one picture or to hundreds at once. Put it in one of nine positions, anywhere you drag it, or as a tiled diagonal pattern across the whole photo, and set its opacity, size, rotation, margin and blend mode.

Sizes are a share of each photo (by default of its shorter side), so a batch of portrait and landscape photos from different cameras all get the same-looking watermark in the same place. Text can use tokens — {filename}, {date}, {year}, {index} and {taken}, the date the photo was taken from its EXIF data — which turns the tool into a batch date stamper. Save as JPG, PNG or WebP with your chosen quality, and download everything as one ZIP. The photos never leave your device.

Common uses

• Branding product, property or portfolio photos before posting them online.
• Marking proofs for clients so they are not used before they are paid for.
• Date-stamping a batch of photos for records, site inspections or albums.
• Numbering photos (“3/12”) or labelling them with their file names for review.

Tokens

• {filename} — the photo’s file name without the extension (for example IMG_2041).
• {taken} and {taken-time} — the date and time the photo was taken, read from its EXIF data (DateTimeOriginal). When a photo has none — screenshots, edited or messaging-app copies often lose it — the file’s last-modified date is used.
• {date} — today’s date; {year} — the year the photo was taken (from EXIF, else from the file’s date, like {taken}).
• {index} and {count} — the photo’s number in the batch and the total, for example “{index}/{count}”.
• {width} and {height} — the photo’s size in pixels.

Choose the date format under Date format; the ’YY MM DD style imitates the date imprint of film cameras.

Keeping the watermark consistent

Size and margin are percentages of each photo, not fixed pixels: with shorter side, 4% text is set in 160 px type on a 6000 × 4000 photo and on a 4000 × 6000 one alike. Anchored positions measure the margin from the watermark’s rotated outline, so even a tilted watermark stays inside the margin. A custom (dragged) position is stored as a share of the width and height, so it lands on the same spot of every photo.

Making a watermark hard to remove

A small mark in a corner is easy to crop away. To protect images, use a tiled pattern or a larger mark across the subject at low opacity (15–30%), and use Multiply or Overlay so it blends into the picture. No visible watermark makes copying impossible — it only makes misuse harder and shows who the photo belongs to.

Limitations

• Saved photos are re-encoded: their EXIF data (camera, GPS location, date) is not copied into the new files.
• Photos larger than 67 megapixels are scaled down to that size, the most a browser can reliably draw (iPhone and iPad included).
• Fonts cover Latin, Devanagari (Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit), Greek and Cyrillic depending on the font; other scripts, such as Bengali or Tamil, use a font installed on your device.
• Very large batches keep the finished files in memory until you download them; on phones, work in groups of about 50 photos.
• The {taken} date comes from the photo’s own EXIF data and is shown as recorded by the camera (camera clocks are often wrong by hours or years).

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