Looking to watermark photos free to protect your images from content theft?
Whether you want to download free watermark software, or prefer to watermark online, I’ve got you covered!
Here’s the Ultimate List of websites where you can watermark photos free!
Each listing first specifies whether you’ll watermark online or download software, then you’ll see the website address. Each site works a bit differently, so check out a couple. Click on each heading to visit the site. If you’ve tried any, please give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down!
How to Watermark Photos FREE!
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Great info to have. Protecting our online properties is harder than ever, and pictures are especially easy to pilfer. So hats off for a good set of sites and tools that can help.
Hey Frank, thanks so much for reading and commenting! I appreciate your support!
Louise, I am a beginner but need to watermark some paintings to show online that my husband did. Which website would be the easiest for a computer novice…nothing to intricate or I am lost. I do not want his artwork to be ripped off.
Hi Donna!
I’d suggest trying PicMarkr or WaterMarquee. Be sure to upload the smallest images that show the work – be aware that there WILL be people who downlaod the images, and watermarks are easy to remove. You can read this article for more info on protecting images: http://louisem.com/1854/can-you-protect-images-from-copyright-infringement
Best!
Louise
Great info as usual! I really like number 6 as it has lots of options.
Thanks Carol, I appreciate getting a recommendation!
I’m planning to post some photos on my site and looking for the ways to add watermark, the information on this article definitely helps. Thank you !
Glad you enjoyed the post, Mark!
Hi Louise,
thanks for your great work on it.
i’ll try Visual Watermark – it seems very good and has high rates in cnet and softpedia.
Regards
Hi Vitor!
Appreciate your visit and comment. Enjoy!
Wow, great list, I loved the tool you embeded to show the list. It was worth the visit to your blog, I got both the useful tools to watermark and an awesome list making tool.
Terrific Sreejesh! I’m glad you got some good info, and I appreciate your comment!
i think the best solution to watermark the images still remaining photoshop or imagemagick
i use them since awhile and im very happy
Absolutely Bratari! If you have the images open already in an image editor like Photoshop, watermark them right then. Saves time!
Have a great day!
hi dear louise , good time
sorry , How can I add watermark to some special pages while other pages without watermark in word2007?
I’m sorry Hossein, I don’t work with Word. These watermark tools are for photos and other images.
Best of luck with it!
Hello. Recently I created a page from within my personal Facebook profile. The page is to show friends and family some stuff I´m selling. My idea is to label the pictures as things get sold. I´ve been looking all over for online image editing tools for adding watermarks to photos on this page, but all these tools will only allow me to edit my profile pictures, but the ones in the page won´t be listed or appear anywhere. Any ideas on how to deal with this problem?
Hi Andrew. I think you’re wanting to add a watermark (or “sold” verbiage) to photos that are already on Facebook? I don’t know of a way to do that.
You could add it in a comment or the description, or just delete the photo.
wonderful list…. 😀
Glad you enjoyed it! I’m surprised by the immense popularity of this post. So glad you’re finding it useful!
Really enjoyed your article. Visual Watermark was my fav!!
Thanks Ashley!
I was wondering if you knew how to add a symbol to the watermark. Like the name and a little symbol like a small diamond or something.
Hey Crystal,
I doubt that any of these free programs would allow you to do that easily. You’d probably need to create an art file that you could overlay in a graphics program, or on pixlr.com.
Most fonts have special symbols. You can access them by pressing a shortcut on your keyboard or using a special app – Character Map.
Both Windows and Mac have programs that show a complete list of all available characters. On Windows, it’s under Start – All Programs – Accessories – System Tools – Character Map menu item. Start it. Find a symbol you want, click the Select button. Then click Copy to save the symbol into your clipboard. Switch to the watermarking program and paste the symbol (Ctrl + V) in a text field.
This will work for every program you have. Should it be Microsoft Word or Google Chrome.
That’s a fantastic tip, thanks Ivan!
When I need symbols, I usually just paste in a symbol font, but this will be more flexible. I just never remember how to find those secret characters on Mac!
I prefer to believe it’s from being blond rather than senile 😉
There is also shortcuts for these symbols. For example, on Mac copyright symbol is Alt + G.
That one I know oh-so-well 😉 It’s the shapes and smileys that I’m not sure about on Mac. We don’t have all the keyboard codes with strings of numbers – at least I’m not aware of it!
Some icons sent from Windows aren’t recognized on Mac as well.
Hi Louise
I have made a free online watermarker, and a free for personal use (windows only) watermarker and I was wondering if you might consider adding my site to the list http://www.watermark-image.com ?
/Anders
Sure, I will do that. Thanks Anders!
waw, I was really wondering if you knew how to add a symbol to the watermark. Like the name and a little symbol like a small diamond or something.
If you don’t have a symbol font, try googling “special characters.”
I’m not on a PC so I don’t know if this will work, but it’s worth a try!
Louise, thanks for this list of watermark software, its hard for us this days to secure out photos online, since I am studying to be a photographer, watermarking software is so important, thanks so much!
I’m glad this was helpful, Rechel! Best of luck to you in your photography career.
Thanks for this post, Louise! Number 8 worked for me. 🙂
Wonderful! Glad you found it helpful 🙂
Hi Louise…!!!
Great work… I google for best watermark and it shows me a list of Watermark software. I confused which is best?
Then I head over to your website and I found my answer. Just Downloaded Visual watermark.
Thanks for sharing
Hey Utsav, so glad this was helpful! Thanks for your kind comment.
Hello Louise,
Thanks for this interesting & wonderful post. I came across while looking for some tools coz I had plans to have my photography blog 🙂
You are most welcome, Euphonos (lovely sounding name, right? 🙂 )
Best wishes on your photography blog!
for video I recommended Aoao Video Watermark Pro. its easy to use. 🙂
Thanks for the tip!
Hi, Louise Myers,
which software should i use to detect watermark in an image ?
Thanks
Hi Woo,
Watermarks are visible, so you don’t need software. If it’s metadata you’re after, several Adobe programs can read it, like Photoshop and Bridge. A Google search will net you some websites. I haven’t used them so I can’t recommend one.
Louise
“Watermarks are visible”
This is not true of audio files. How can they be detected?
Hey CZ, my specialty is graphics, and I couldn’t tell you about audio. Sorry.
Hello Louise. Maybe you can help me? I used paint in my windows program to add a text box to many pictures thinking it would act as a watermark. Not ever doing this before, I made the mistake of not checking it out first and now half these pictures are marked with no way to remove the text box. The paint program has no way to remove them, and in my photo program I cannot return it to original. Is there a way to remove these text boxes without ruining my beautiful photos? Thank you for any help you can give to me.
Hi Katherine,
Unfortunately, if you can’t remove the text boxes in the program that created them, I really don’t know how you would do it.
Any chance you have a backup copy of your photos on your phone, camera, or elsewhere? Sorry I couldn’t help.
Just an awesome article 🙂
So glad you enjoyed it, Julia!
What about Watermark Factory 2 ?
Looks like that one isn’t free permanently? If it is, give me the link and I’ll be happy to add it!
wonderful list…. 😀
Thanks Shahid!
I use iWatermark on my Mac, Windows tablet and iPhone and it works great! It’s definitely my favorite and I believe they have versions for Mac, Windows, Android and iOS. Check it out 🙂
Thanks for the recommendation, Susan! Since the post is only FREE apps, I can’t add it, but it’s nice to hear you like it.
What if I want to be your intern!!!
Any way great to have such an informative writings.
I’ll keep that in mind, Anick, if I should want an intern. Thanks!
Awesome, lets see what works … I am trying Visualwatermark.com … hope it will be exactly what I am looking for ..
Cheers!
Best of luck with it, Patrick!
I like this software so much.
I’m happy to hear that, Salim!
I would be glad if you can also review the free app that I released for this same purpose recently. It’s called Picture Stamper and is available for Mac and Windows.
http://amin-ahmadi.com/picture-stamper/
Looks good Amin, I have added it to the list. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing. I have started using this website for adding watermark.
Hello! We have released our first version of free watermarking tool at watermark.top. It has few interesting features and might be useful for many. Tool is new and still under development. I hope you would like it 🙂 tips and comments are highly appreciated! Thank you.
Robert
UMark is a notable tool I had been using since long to watermark my images for copyright protection. On similar grounds, I’d like to introduce you to Canva. Give it a try. Is it worth adding to this list?
Hi Garg,
I’ve written about Canva many times. I think of it as a lot more than a watermark tool, but it certainly could be used for that.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Thanks for sharing!
VisualWatermark is very good and I have been using it for a while. But I got a better tool from GOTD a few days ago named PT Watermark. After using it a few days, now I feel it’s probably the best (both in quality and efficiency) watermarking software in the market. Hope you like it too 🙂
Water marquee, cdWorks and umark are one of the best watermark
software to use. You have listed almost all the good software to use for watermark. Thanks for sharing your valuable information.