Photo Watermark — Add Text to Photos Online, No Upload

Add a text watermark to a photo, in your browser

Type your text, choose where it goes and how strong it looks, check the preview and download the watermarked copy. The photo is never uploaded. This tool adds text only; it cannot place a logo or another image on the photo.

What you can set

The text itself, its size from 12 to 400 pixels, its colour, its opacity from 10% to 100%, and the position: any of the four corners, the centre, or Tile, which repeats the text across the whole photo at a slight upward slant. For the corner positions you can also set the distance from the edge, from 0 to 400 pixels. The text is bold and uses your browser's default sans-serif font; there is no font choice.

Size is in real pixels

The text size and the edge distance are measured in pixels of the full-size photo, not of the preview. The preview shows a reduced copy of up to 1600 pixels on the long side, so it looks smaller on screen but is in the same proportions as the file you download, which is saved at the photo's original size.

Output

Choose JPEG or PNG. JPEG is saved at a fixed quality of 92% and there is no quality slider; PNG is lossless and gives a larger file. The result downloads as watermarked.jpeg or watermarked.png, one photo at a time. Your original file is not changed.

What a watermark can and cannot do

A visible text mark shows who a picture belongs to and discourages casual reuse. It does not stop someone from cropping it out or painting over it in an editor. A tiled or centred mark is harder to remove than a corner mark, but it also covers more of the picture, so check the preview before you download.

Photo data

The photo is redrawn and saved again, so camera details and location tags in the original are not copied into the watermarked file. If you share the copy publicly this is usually what you want; keep the original if you need that data. To make the result smaller, use the image compressor.