Watermark photos in a batch

Mark a whole set of product photos in one go

MarkDrift watermarks photos for free, one at a time or a whole batch returned as a ZIP. Product shots, portfolio images, a carousel for Instagram: photos get lifted even more easily than videos, because one screenshot is all it takes. This page opens the tool on the "Photos" tab with the "Tiled" style, which repeats your name or logo across the whole picture. A crop can't cut a tiled mark out, because there's no clean edge of the image to crop to.

Drop in one photo and you get one photo back. Drop in forty and they come back together in a single ZIP, each one marked with the same settings.

How to watermark photos in a batch

1. Click "Choose videos or photos" and select your pictures, or drag them onto the page. JPG, PNG and WebP work. Each one shows up as a thumbnail you can click to preview.
2. In "Your watermark", type your shop name, website or @handle, or switch to "Logo" to use your logo. "Make it white" turns a coloured logo white, which usually sits better on busy product shots.
3. In "Style", keep "Tiled" to cover the whole image, or choose "Corner" for a single small mark. "Hardest to remove" also works on photos: faint tiles plus one clearer mark.
4. In "Size and strength", pick a size and set "How visible". For tiles, lower visibility than you'd use for a single mark usually looks better, since the pattern already covers everything.
5. Open "More options" to space the tiles out with "Space between repeats" and change their slant with "Repeat angle". If you don't like where the pattern falls on the product, press "Shuffle".
6. Click "Watermark 40 photos" (it shows your own count), or "Add watermark and download" for a single picture. A batch saves as one file called watermarked-images.zip.

What happens to your files

Each photo keeps its format: a JPG comes back as a JPG and a PNG as a PNG, with "-watermarked" added to the name. If two photos share a name, the second gets a number so neither is lost inside the ZIP.

Photos are opened one at a time during the export, not all together, so a big batch of phone pictures won't run your browser out of memory. Two browser quirks are handled for you. Safari can't write WebP files, so in Safari a WebP comes back as a PNG and is named that way. Very large photos, like full-size shots from recent iPhones, can be too big for Safari to handle; the tool scales those down a little and tells you it did.

The moving styles don't mean much on a still picture. If you pick "Moving" or "Jumping" here, the tool places the mark in one spot taken from the pattern. "Tiled" and "Hardest to remove" are the ones that pay off on photos.

How much a tiled mark protects a photo

A tiled mark beats cropping, and it makes a stolen photo look stolen, which is often enough to stop someone using it in their own shop or feed. It won't stop a patient person with a good AI tool. A March 2026 test published by imagecrush.io found that current AI watermark removers beat both jitter and tiling on still images. The "Extra protection" setting still helps a bit, since every tile differs slightly, but on photos it slows removal down without stopping it.

What you can control is where the mark sits. A tile that crosses the product itself is harder to clean than one sitting on a plain background, because the remover has to invent the product detail underneath. Place the pattern so it runs through the thing you're selling.

When to use tiles, and when to keep it small

Tile when the photo itself has value to someone else: product shots a copycat store could reuse, photography samples, artwork, a menu or price list. Keep it to one small "Corner" mark when you want credit more than protection, such as event photos for guests or a behind-the-scenes post, where a pattern over people's faces would spoil the picture.

Doing video too? The same settings carry over, and you can watermark a batch of videos the same way.

Photo watermark questions

Page updated 1 October 2026.