Watermarking images before uploading them online can bring you multiple benefits. No matter if you’re a professional or amateur photographer, blogger or a design artist, adding a watermark to your original photos can turn out to be an inspired decision.
First of all, because this is a solid way to protect your images. By adding a text or logo to your pictures you let everybody know those pictures represent your intellectual property and can’t be further used unless you give your stamp of approval.
Second of all, this is a great way to boost your business marketing. Having a text with your name or website or a brand logo on images will help you increase your visibility, build a stronger online presence and drive important traffic back to your website.
If you’re a Mac user looking to protect or promote your original work, you’re in the right place. Below you can find a list of 10 apps created to help you watermark images with ease.
BatchPhoto
BatchPhoto is a watermark app for Mac designed with batch processing capabilities. The app is powerful enough to handle dozens or hundreds of images at once, but this is not its only strong point. In addition, the program is also quite easy to use thanks to its three-step wizard design. All you have to do is add your pictures in Step 1, apply your watermark in Step 2 and select the output format and folder in Step 3. Then the app will automatically apply all your edits to the entire batch of photos.
With BatchPhoto you can add a copyright, registered, trademark or standard text, EXIF info, as well as a logo and gain complete control over their appearance. The tool gives you total freedom to customize them by adjusting their placement, size and rotation, by changing the opacity or by choosing from a wide range of font styles and colors. The app provides a live preview option, which allows you to see in real time the adjustments made.
BatchPhoto isn’t only about watermarking. In fact, it’s got a wide array of features to cover the photo editing process. You can resize, convert (RAW support), automatically crop or rotate photos, add the date and time from the EXIF record, retouch your photos by adjusting the contrast, brightness, saturation or sharpness, as well as apply special effects to them. To gain precious time and energy, you can save your frequently-used settings for later use.
PhotoMarks
PhotoMarks is an efficient solution to batch watermark images on Mac. The app comes with a clean and clear interface that makes the entire process fast and easy. Just drag and drop your photos, apply the desired edits and select the format and where you want your new pictures to be saved.
As far as watermarking goes, PhotoMarks lets you insert text and logo marks which you can completely customize. This means you get to select the preferred position, resize it or rotate it to a certain degree, repeat the watermark across the image, adjust the transparency, choose from various fonts and colors or apply special effects like stroke, shadow and bounding box. In the same session you can also batch rename, crop, resize, rotate or convert your photos, as well as decorate them with graphical frames.
In order to help you boost your productivity, the app places at your disposal the useful option of saving your widely-used operations as Profiles. This way you can just load them later in other sessions, without having to go through the same editing process.
PhotoMarks also has an iOS version if you’re looking to watermark photos on iPhone or iPad.
PhotoBulk
PhotoBulk is an easy-to-use photo watermark software for Mac. The app comes with a modern and intuitive design, with real-time preview and with all the main functions located on the left side of the interface. Speaking of the main functions, this Mac app allows you to a perform a couple of operations such as watermarking, resizing, optimizing JPEG and PNG files or converting photos in bulk.
PhotoBulk places at your disposal various types of watermarks to select from. You can opt for a classic text, brand logo, date stamp or a script if you want to fill the image with text tags. No matter what you end up choosing, you can make diverse adjustments to your marks to match your individual style. Truly useful is the fact that you can save your commonly-used settings as presets and just load them in future projects to be more efficient.
iWatermark Pro
iWatermark Pro places at your disposal a large variety of watermarks to choose from. In order to protect and advertise your work, among others you can opt for a logo, text, your digital signature, vector graphics or perhaps a modern QR code. There’s also an interesting option to insert a StegoMark. Unlike the others, this is an invisible type of watermark that enables you to embed private data like your name, address or website into the picture data itself.
If you’re looking to add a visible mark, iWatermark Pro gives you the possibility to customize it according to your own preferences. You can control the position of the mark, its size and rotation, set the transparency or apply special effects like aqua, shadow or emboss. Besides watermarking you have options to resize and stylize your pics with diverse effects. Once you’ve finished retouching, the app enables you to directly share your photos on social media, upload them to Dropbox or send via email.
Watermark Plus
Watermark Plus provides the opportunity to batch watermark photos in various ways. You can resort to a copyright text, a logo, EXIF data, as well as add script watermarks to cover your pictures with text tags. The app offers 17 built-in watermark profiles to choose from, and also allows you to save your frequently-used settings and reuse them later. You can batch process your files, but there’s also a single mode available, which lets you separately customize the location of the text/logo for each picture.
With Watermark Plus you can perform the desired adjustments to your marks. You’ll be able to freely place and rotate your chosen watermark, adjust the opacity, change the font style, color and alignment or apply special effects. The app is designed with an useful feature to automatically adjust your watermark to images of different sizes. If you plan on optimizing your photos for web use, the tool enables you to rename, resize or convert in bulk.
Watermark.ws
If you don’t wish to download and install a new program on your Mac, it’s good to know you can resort to an online alternative. Watermark.ws is a browser-based solution to watermark images, videos and GIF’s. The tool offers a free standard version, which allows you to edit one photo at a time. The upgrade to the premium version is a must if, among others, you need to edit an unlimited number of pictures simultaneously, use watermark templates and enjoy a faster processing of your files.
Watermark.ws allows you to upload files from your Mac or import them from diverse apps and sources, such as Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox or OneDrive. At the moment the tool makes it possible to insert a text and logo into your pictures, while a digital signature is announced to be available soon. You can customize your watermark as you want, with plenty of useful options to choose from. Once you’re done you can download the edited photos on a local folder or directly export them to other apps.
Additionally you can crop, resize and rotate your images, as well as apply artistic filters and effects.
Mass Watermark
Mass Watermark is designed to ensure a quick and efficient protection of your images. The app lets you add an existing text or logo to an entire folder of photos, but it also comes with a built-in watermark designer to help you create from scratch your own watermark. There are options to add text and logo marks to your pictures and customize them with regard to various parameters.
In addition to protecting your work, Mass Watermark can help you further optimize your photos by resizing, rotating or cropping them in bulk. You can improve the general aspect of your images by adjusting basic settings such as brightness, contrast or RGB color and by applying diverse artistic effects. When you’re satisfied with how your pictures look, there’s an option to directly share them on Flickr.
uMark
uMark is another solution to consider if you need to watermark multiple images on Mac. The app doesn’t come with the sleekest interface out there, but it’s fairly easy to use and offers a large, live preview of the changes made. You can protect and promote your photography using the standard text and logo marks, but you can also resort to more modern elements like QR codes or various shapes which you can fill with solid or gradient colors.
uMark lets you customize your watermark as you please. In that sense you can place them exactly where you want, rotate and scale them, repeat them horizontally or vertically across the photo, select from a wide range of fonts, styles and colors, adjust the transparency level or add shadows for an artistic effect. To improve your workflow, the tool enables you to save your commonly-used marks and simply retrieve them later.
WhatAMark
WhatAMark is a simple alternative to watermark photos on Mac individually or in bulk. The app comes with an easy-to-navigate interface, which includes a split screen with the original photograph and the watermarked one. You can apply a single text or image watermark, create multiple combinations or overlay several photos onto the original.
WhatAMark offers the opportunity to change the font style and color, add a text background, set the opacity level or modify the size of your watermark using a simple slider. You can also adjust the placement of your text or logo by selecting from nine predetermined options. Before processing you can save your operations as presets, convert the pictures to another format and rename them and choose the compression/quality settings.
Sizerox
Sizerox isn’t a tool particularly developed for watermarking, but it does carry out this task without problems. The app is pretty simplistic and comes with certain quirks (you can save your newly-edited images only in the JPEG format), but it does allow you to protect or promote your original content.
When it comes to watermarking, Sizerox enables you to add both text and logo marks to your pics. You can control their placement and size, set the transparency and select the desired font type, size and color. Other available features include options to rename, resize, crop or rotate images in bulk.
