Configure watermark

The watermark is applied to every selection gallery to protect your photos. You set it up once — the image, and where it lands on the photo — and it is used across all your galleries.

How to upload it

1. Go to Settings in your dashboard.
2. In the watermark section, click to upload your image.
3. Choose a PNG with transparent background. A JPG cannot be transparent: instead of letting the photo show through, it would cover it with a solid block.
4. Pick where the mark lands and save.

The two styles

Above the upload field you choose where your mark lands on the photos your client sees. This is what each one looks like:

Once, in the center

Repeated across the whole photo

Once, in the center

A single mark in the middle of the photo. It is the most discreet, it is what every gallery used until now, and it is the easiest to remove. Here the mark is placed at its own size without being scaled, which is why we recommend 500x500 pixels: a smaller file lands small on the photo.

Repeated across the whole photo

The mark repeats diagonally over the entire frame, corner to corner. Here it is scaled to each photo, so it looks the same on a horizontal one as on a vertical one. This is the option we recommend.

Why repeating it stops AI removal

Removing a watermark used to take a designer and a lot of patience. Today any app does it in one click: the AI deletes the area the mark covers and reinvents it from the pixels around it. Against a single centered mark this works very well, because the rest of the photo is intact and is all the reference the AI needs.

• Nothing left to copy from. When the mark covers the whole frame there is no clean area around it. The AI is no longer patching a hole, it has to repaint the entire photo.
• The damage shows. Faces, hands, hair and fabric come back deformed. What is left is not a photo anyone would want to publish.
• And it shows less resolution. The repeated style also displays the photo at 1000px instead of 1600px. That is the part nobody can undo: a mark can be erased by editing, the resolution you never delivered cannot be recovered.

What makes a good repeated watermark

• Thick strokes. Very fine script lines almost disappear once the mark is scaled down and repeated. A logo with solid, thick lines holds up much better.
• 500x500 and no empty margin. The mark should fill its square. Empty space around it only makes what is actually seen on the photo smaller.
• Around 50% opacity. Enough to protect the photo and still let your client judge it. A fully opaque mark makes choosing hard.

What changes and what does not

• New galleries only. Changing the style applies to the galleries you create from now on. The ones you already created keep the watermark they were made with.
• The same goes for the image. Photos are watermarked as they upload, so replacing your watermark image does not change photos that are already uploaded. It applies to the ones you upload afterwards.
• Deliveries never carry a watermark. Both styles apply only to selection galleries. Delivery galleries always show the photo exactly as you uploaded it.