Photo never leaves your device
The watermark is drawn onto your image entirely in your browser, so there's no upload and no server copy of your original photo.
Add Watermark to Image
Add Watermark to Image locally in your browser. Customize text, position, opacity, and size for JPG, PNG, or WebP files—free, private, and no upload.
- Photo never leaves your device
- Full control over the look
- Live preview, instant export
- Simple workflow
Choose your file
Choose or drop an image
JPG, JPEG, PNG, WEBP· up to 20.0 MB per file
Processed only in your browser — never uploaded
Free single-file processing in your browser; no cloud conversion quota is used.
Why use this Add Watermark to Image?
Add Watermark to Image locally in your browser. Customize text, position, opacity, and size for JPG, PNG, or WebP files—free, private, and no upload.
Full control over the look
Fine-tune text, position, opacity and font size until the watermark strikes the right balance between visible and unobtrusive.
Live preview, instant export
Every adjustment renders immediately, and the final image is ready to download the moment you're happy with it — no processing queue.
Simple workflow
Choose a file, review the options, and create the result.
How to use the Add Watermark to Image
- 01
Select your photo
Choose a JPG, PNG or WebP from your device — it opens directly in your browser and is never uploaded.
- 02
Type your watermark text
Enter up to 64 characters — your name, brand or website — and see it rendered on the photo instantly.
- 03
Adjust position, opacity and size
Place the text in one of five positions, set its opacity from 10–100% and its size from 2–20% of the image, previewing every change live.
- 04
Download the watermarked image
Save the result in its original format. The text is burned into the pixels, so keep an unmarked original if you'll need one later.
Best source settings for the Add Watermark to Image
Choose settings that match the result you need.
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| Need | Recommended setting | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Watermark text (up to 64 characters) | Use a concise © credit, name, brand or website. Stay within the 64-character limit to avoid overflow. | Use a concise © credit, name, brand or website. Stay within the 64-character limit to avoid overflow. |
| Position (top-left / top-right / center / bottom-left / bottom-right) | Corners keep the credit discreet; center placement is harder to crop out. | Corners keep the credit discreet; center placement is harder to crop out. |
| Opacity (10–100%) | Use 30–50% for a subtle mark or 70–100% for stronger protection. Check the live preview. | Use 30–50% for a subtle mark or 70–100% for stronger protection. Check the live preview. |
| Font size (2–20% of image size) | Size scales with the image. Around 5% is discreet; 10–20% is harder to remove from public photos. | Size scales with the image. Around 5% is discreet; 10–20% is harder to remove from public photos. |
- Select your photo
- Choose a JPG, PNG or WebP from your device — it opens directly in your browser and is never uploaded.
- Type your watermark text
- Enter up to 64 characters — your name, brand or website — and see it rendered on the photo instantly.
Add Watermark to Image input and output
Review what the tool accepts, how it processes the file, and what it produces.
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| Feature | JPG | PNG |
|---|---|---|
| Format | JPG | PNG |
| Processing | Runs in your browser | Runs in your browser |
| Result | Add Watermark to Image locally in your browser. Customize text, position, opacity, and size for JPG, PNG, or WebP files—free, private, and no upload. | Add Watermark to Image locally in your browser. Customize text, position, opacity, and size for JPG, PNG, or WebP files—free, private, and no upload. |
Where to use files from the Add Watermark to Image
The output is ready for common workflows supported by its format.
- Photo never leaves your device
- The watermark is drawn onto your image entirely in your browser, so there's no upload and no server copy of your original photo.
- Full control over the look
- Fine-tune text, position, opacity and font size until the watermark strikes the right balance between visible and unobtrusive.
- Live preview, instant export
- Every adjustment renders immediately, and the final image is ready to download the moment you're happy with it — no processing queue.
- Simple workflow
- Choose a file, review the options, and create the result.
About the formats
JPG
JPG (also written JPEG) is the most widely used lossy image format for photographs, standardized by the Joint Photographic Experts Group in 1992. Practically every camera, phone, and image application can create and open it.
Its strengths are small file sizes for photos and universal compatibility across devices, browsers, and software. The trade-offs: lossy compression introduces artifacts, there is no transparency support, and quality degrades a little more with every re-save. Use JPG for photographs; choose PNG for screenshots, logos, or anything that needs sharp edges or transparency.
PNG
PNG is a lossless raster image format created in the mid-1990s as a patent-free replacement for GIF. It is the standard choice for screenshots, logos, UI graphics, and any image that needs transparency.
PNG preserves every pixel exactly and supports a full 8-bit alpha channel, so text and sharp edges stay crisp. The downside is size: photographs saved as PNG are far larger than the same image as JPG or WebP. Support is universal in browsers and editors, making it a safe default for graphics — just avoid it for large photo collections.
WebP
WebP is a modern image format developed by Google that supports both lossy and lossless compression, along with transparency and animation. At comparable visual quality it usually produces noticeably smaller files than JPG or PNG.
Every current browser supports WebP, which makes it an excellent default for web delivery. Outside the browser the picture is mixed: older desktop software, some email clients, and legacy systems may fail to open it. If a recipient cannot view a WebP file, convert it to JPG for photos or to PNG when transparency must be preserved.
Privacy and file handling
Processing happens in your browser, so the selected file is not uploaded.
- Browser-local processing
- The conversion runs on this device after the page loads.
- No file upload
- The source image does not need to leave your browser.
- No model API
- This basic tool does not send the file to an AI model.
Add Watermark to Image troubleshooting
- Watermark is too subtle
- Raise the opacity toward 100% and increase the font size. Moving it to the center also makes it far harder to ignore or crop out.
- Watermark covers the subject of the photo
- Switch from the center to a corner position and reduce the font size. Lowering the opacity a little also lets the image show through the text.
- Text looks cut off or overflows the image
- Long text at a large font size can exceed the image width, especially on narrow images. Shorten the text (it is capped at 64 characters) or lower the font-size percentage.
FAQ
- Can the watermark be removed later?
- No. The text is drawn into the output pixels, so it cannot be cleanly removed. Keep an unwatermarked original.
- Is my image uploaded anywhere?
- No. The watermark is drawn onto your image entirely in your browser, never uploaded. The file stays on your device the whole time.
- What can I customize?
- The watermark text (up to 64 characters), its position (top-left, top-right, center, bottom-left or bottom-right), its opacity (10–100%) and its font size (2–20% of the image size).
- Is there a file size limit?
- Yes. The current file picker accepts one image up to 20 MB. Watermarking still runs locally in your browser, and very large image dimensions may also be limited by your device's available memory.
- Can I add a logo image instead of text?
- Not yet. The tool supports text watermarks up to 64 characters, including a name, © symbol, brand or website.
- Will watermarking reduce my image's quality?
- There is no extra loss beyond a normal save. JPG is re-encoded with slight loss; PNG and WebP remain lossless.
- Is watermarking free, and is there a limit on how many photos I can mark?
- It is free, requires no account, and has no per-image usage cap.
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