iWatermark is the most popular tool for watermarking photos. It is available on Mac, Win and now on the iPhone too. iWatermark lets you add your personal or business watermark to any photo or graphic. Once added this visible watermark displays your creation and ownership of this photograph or artwork.

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iWatermark comes with examples of text (names, dates, etc) and graphic (signatures, logos, etc.) watermarks which you can use immediately to test out iWatermark. But soon you will want to create your own watermarks. You can make your own text watermarks directly in iWatermark. The graphic watermarks like signatures or logos need to be made on your computer (see FAQ below for more details) and then synched over to the iPhone using iTunes to the photo library. Once in the photo library you can use your images (like you own signature or logo) when making a graphic watermark.

Digitally sign your photos/artwork with iWatermark to claim, secure and maintain your intellectual property and reputation. Build your company brand, by having your company logo on all your images. Avoid the surprise of seeing your photos and/or artwork elsewhere on the web or in an ad. Avoid the conflicts and headaches with plagiarists who claim they didn't know that you created it. Avoid the costly litigation that can be involved in these cases of misuse of ip. Avoid intellectual property squabbles.

Take or select a photo then choose from a selection of included example watermarks (both text and graphics) or add your own text or graphic watermark. Your customized watermark can be text, a business logo or your signature. Then from a roller select one of these and instantly watermark any photo. When you create a watermark you can easily adjust its scale, opacity, font, color and angle. Later you can use these watermarks anytime you take a photo or select a photo and save to your photo library or email in various resolutions.  

How to Watermark

iWatermark is simple to use. iWatermark adds a visible watermark to photos. Add a watermark (yours or one of the sample watermarks we include) to one of your photos. 

To begin select a photo or take one. Once you have selected a photo you will be returned to the home page where you can then click the button iWatermark Photo. This will take you to the Watermarking page. Here you can click on the menu at the bottom of the page Watermarks, a a roller will slide up then choose one of many example Watermarks. Once you select one you will see it on your photo. Click on the photo or the watermark menu to have the roller disappear. With your finger click on the watermark to move it around on the page. Hit save and it saves a copy of that photo with that watermark on it in your photo library or can send it via email.

Create a Watermark

To make a watermark is also simple. First make sure you have a photo selected. You will not be watermarking this photo but you will be using it as a background for the creation of your watermark. Next select either the button to make a Text or a Graphic watermark.

Once you are on the Create Text Watermark page you will see a new menu at bottom left called Edit. Click that and at the top you will see the menu item Text, click that. In this text dialog type anything you want, like your name. Once you have done that choose any of the other Edit menu items scale, opacity, font, color and/or angle to adjust them to your liking.

For Graphic Watermarks you can use any graphic. Graphics are either photos that you have taken or graphics that you have created on the iPhone or imported. The signatures we include are .png files. PNG is a format that allows the background to be transparent. Google png to learn more about making this files. You can make a .png file of your signature and import it to use on your photos.

FAQ

Q: How do I add multiple watermarks to one photo?
A: Do one and save it to the photo library then choose it as the photo to put a new watermark on and do it again. You can put as many watermarks as you want on a photo this way.

Q: I want to add watermarks to multiple photos at once like the desktop version.
A: Not available now but we will add this in the future. 

Q: I want to use my signature as the visible watermark for my photos. How do I add graphics like the example signatures by Picasso, Ben Franklin, etc.? 
A: To do that you need to make the graphics on your computer, put the new signature in iPhone and sync it over to the iPhone using iTunes. You can use any graphic but for your own signature you need to scan in your signature and then eliminate the background. If you have a signature with a white background then this will obscure a part of your photo. In an image editor like Photoshop (or some other graphics editor like Gimp which is free) open your signature, remove the white background with the magic tool then save the file as a .png file. This link gives you the steps to do this. Here are 5 more ways to do this. You can also google creating a signature with transparent background to get more info.

To transfer it to your iPhone put it iPhoto and make sure that when you connect your phone to sync it that your new signature graphic with other photos you keep on the iPhone. There are probably other ways to transfer your signature to the photo library on the iPhone.

Then in iWatermark you make a graphic watermark and use your signature image (from the iPhone photo libarary) and give it your name. You can have many of these at different resolutions, rotations, opacities, etc and give each a name to identify it.

Q: How do I delete the example signatures and logos that are provided?
A: Select a photo (to act as a background) then click on create graphic watermark. Next click on the watermark and the roller will pop up. Click the red - sign to delete that example.

IMPORTANT: The signatures of John Hancock, Ben Franklin, Galileo are just examples of graphic watermarks. They are the real signatures of these people. The are there for fun and to show what is possible. You can and we recommend you do create your own signature or use your logo for your photos. See the info in the Q&A above about how to create and put your own signature or logo into iWatermark. If you don't want to create your own graphic watermark you can always create text watermarks as you need them.

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