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Top 10! Free Watermark Software & Sites to Watermark Online

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Free Watermark Software & Sites to Watermark Online

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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Want to watermark photos free to protect from content theft? Check this ultimate list of websites to download free watermark software or watermark online.

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  1. 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.

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  3. 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 !

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  4. 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

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  5. 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.

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  6. i think the best solution to watermark the images still remaining photoshop or imagemagick

    i use them since awhile and im very happy

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    • 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!

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  7. hi dear louise , good time
    sorry , How can I add watermark to some special pages while other pages without watermark in word2007?

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    • I’m sorry Hossein, I don’t work with Word. These watermark tools are for photos and other images.

      Best of luck with it!

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  8. 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?

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    • 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.

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    • Glad you enjoyed it! I’m surprised by the immense popularity of this post. So glad you’re finding it useful!

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  11. 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.

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • 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 😉

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          • 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.

  13. 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.

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    • 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!

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  14. 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!

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  16. 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

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  17. 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 🙂

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    • You are most welcome, Euphonos (lovely sounding name, right? 🙂 )

      Best wishes on your photography blog!

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    • 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

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  20. 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.

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    • 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.

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  24. 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 🙂

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    • 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.

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  26. Awesome, lets see what works … I am trying Visualwatermark.com … hope it will be exactly what I am looking for ..
    Cheers!

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  30. 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

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  31. 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?

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    • 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!

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  32. 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 🙂

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  33. 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.

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  34. I’m using cdWorks Photo Helper too. I can not only watermark my photos, but also manage EXIF data and edit picture data. Good one!

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  35. I tried several of them you mentioned and did not work for me; I like to put my site name on my photos exactly right bottom corner with specific margin. It failed when the width and height ratio changes. But, I do not want to change one by one using photo shop or any app.
    I couldn’t find one doing exactly like that.

    So, I just developed one. If it’s simple text watermark (I do not support image yet), this must work for many with one click. I spent two week on this and does not want to use it myself.

    I put it into windows app store with “Bulk Photo Editor”. (only for windows 10)

    Please let me know if it’s worth to improve further with rotation, image watermark..

    Thank you,

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