Writes your name into the EXIF Artist and
Copyright fields. This is invisible text inside the file. It survives
cropping, but anyone can strip it, and most social platforms discard it when they
re-encode your upload. It is a claim of authorship, not a protection.
Type your name, website or a copyright line, or upload your own logo, and Fix Shots stamps
it onto your photo. You control where it sits, how big it is, how transparent it is and what
angle it runs at. There is no signup, no upload limit, and no Fix Shots branding added to
your image - the only mark on it is yours.
What a Watermark Actually Does
It is worth being straight about this, because a lot of watermarking sites are not.
A watermark is not a copyright. In almost every country you own the
copyright in a photograph from the moment you press the shutter. No mark, registration or
symbol is needed to create that right. Adding one does not give you anything you did not
already have.
A watermark is a deterrent, not a lock. A small mark in a corner can be
cropped off in seconds. Today's editing tools can paint over a modest mark convincingly. What
a watermark does is remove the excuse: someone reusing your photo has to remove your name on
purpose, and that is a much harder position to defend.
Coverage and beauty pull against each other. A tiled mark running across
the middle of the frame is genuinely hard to remove, and it also spoils the picture. A small
corner mark leaves the photo intact and offers little protection. There is no setting that
gives you both, which is why this tool lets you choose rather than choosing for you.
Visible Mark vs Invisible Credit
These two cover opposite weaknesses, so this tool offers both and you can use either or both.
The visible watermark is burned into the pixels. It survives screenshots,
re-saving and re-encoding, because at that point it simply is part of the picture. It can be
cropped or painted out.
The EXIF credit writes your name into the file's Artist and Copyright fields.
It is invisible, it survives cropping and resizing, and it travels with the original file. It is
also trivially stripped by anyone who knows to look, and most social platforms discard it
automatically when they re-encode your upload. Treat it as a signature on the back of a print,
not as a lock on the door.
Choosing Settings That Work
For a photo you are publishing to a portfolio or a blog, a corner mark at around 20-30% width
and 40-50% opacity is usually enough - visible when looked for, easy to ignore while viewing.
For proofs, previews or anything you are sending to a client before payment, use the tiled
option at a low opacity. It makes the image usable for review and unusable for publication,
which is exactly what a proof is for.
Keep the dark outline switched on for text. White text alone disappears against a bright sky
or a pale background, and that is the single most common reason a watermark ends up invisible in
the place you most wanted it seen.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a watermark give me copyright over my photo?
No. You already hold it. A watermark makes your ownership visible; it does not create or
register any right, and Fix Shots cannot register one for you.
Can someone remove the watermark I add?
Yes, with effort. Corner marks crop away easily. Tiled marks across the subject are much
harder to remove cleanly, at the cost of how the photo looks.
What image formats can I use?
JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, TIFF, BMP, GIF and HEIC. Your result comes back in the same format you
uploaded wherever possible, so a transparent PNG stays transparent. HEIC files are returned as
JPG, and GIFs as PNG - the page tells you when the format changed and why.
No. Your image is processed in memory and discarded as soon as the result is sent back to
you. Nothing is written to disk, logged, or kept. If you want to go further and remove the
hidden data your camera already put in the file, use the
Photo Privacy Cleaner.
Does Fix Shots add its own watermark?
No. No branding, no signup, no per-day limit. The only mark on your image is the one you
chose.
