How to batch watermark photos for free

Open Fix Watermark, add your photos, type your mark, then press Download ZIP. Free runs are unlimited, so a batch of 200 is four runs. In Lightroom Classic, select the Watermark box in the Export dialog's Watermarking panel to add a copyright watermark to exported photos.

Published October 30, 2026. Drafted with AI assistance and checked against the sources linked on this page. How we write our guides.

Batch watermark photos free in your browser

Fix Watermark puts the same text or logo on many photos in one go, in your browser, and nothing is uploaded. These are our tool's steps:

1. Open Fix Watermark.
2. Add the photos: drop them on the page, choose several at once, paste an image, or press Add a folder (on a computer).
3. Under Watermark type pick Text or Logo. For text, type it in Watermark text.
4. Set Size (% of image width), Opacity (%) and Position, or drag the mark in the preview.
5. With two or more photos, press Download ZIP or Download each file.

Free: up to 50 photos per run, and runs are unlimited. No watermark of ours on your photos, ever. Original pixel size; JPEG and WebP are re-encoded at the quality you choose.

The tool reads JPEG, PNG, WebP and GIF files (a GIF uses its first frame), plus HEIC in Safari 17 and later. You can save as the same type as the original, or as JPEG, PNG or WebP. Camera and copyright metadata are kept, and GPS location data is left out of the saved copy by default; you can switch that off. Each file name gets "-watermarked" added by default, so IMG_1.jpg becomes IMG_1-watermarked.jpg.

Bulk watermark a big batch of photos

When you add more photos than one free run holds, the rest wait. A button then reads Run the next 50, so a batch of 200 is four free runs. The tool also keeps up to three presets on this device, so the next batch can have the same look.

Pro runs a batch of any size in one go and can save a whole batch straight into a folder in Chrome and other Chromium browsers. Pro is a one-time purchase of US$29. We suggest the free runs for a few hundred photos once; if you do this often, a single run is simpler.

Very large downloads are split into several ZIP files, so a phone does not run out of memory. On a phone the steps are in our guide to watermarking photos on an iPhone.

Batch watermark photos in Lightroom Classic

Lightroom Classic can add a watermark as it exports. Adobe's export page (last updated December 20, 2023) says to select the photos you want to export and choose File > Export. In the dialog's Watermarking panel, it says to select the Watermark box to include a copyright watermark on exported photos, for JPEG, PSD, PNG, JPEG XL, AVIF or TIFF files. It does not list DNG or Original for the watermark.

In Lightroom Classic (steps checked October 2026; Adobe's export page numbers only the first step, and the rest come from its description of the Watermarking panel):

1. Select the photos and/or videos you want to export, and choose File > Export.
2. In the Settings panels of the Export dialog box, open Watermarking.
3. Select the Watermark box.
4. Choose Simple Copyright Watermark or Custom. For Custom, pick a watermark whose name appears in the Watermark pop-up menu.

Adobe says Simple Copyright Watermark uses the contents of the Copyright metadata field, and that if the Copyright field is empty, no watermark is applied. To create a custom watermark, Adobe says to click Edit Watermark. If watermarks are not applied to exported photos, Adobe says to make sure you are using the latest update, with Help > Check For Updates. More on this in our guides to Lightroom watermarks and Photoshop watermarks.

Adobe's Watermark Editor page (last updated February 7, 2022) covers making a custom one: choose Edit > Edit Watermarks (Windows) or Lightroom Classic > Edit Watermarks (macOS), pick a style of Text or Graphic, then set effects including Opacity, Size, Inset and Anchor.

Keep the watermark placement right on portrait and landscape photos

A batch mixes tall and wide photos, so check both before you run it all. In Lightroom Classic, Adobe says that with several photos selected in the Filmstrip you can click the Left and Right navigation arrow buttons in the Watermark Editor to preview the watermark on each photo. Adobe also says that if you have trouble seeing the watermark on final images, you can try a larger size or a different position.

In our tool, Size (% of image width) and Margin (% of image width) are percentages of each photo's width, so the mark has the same proportion on large and small photos. A phone records which way is up as an orientation flag, and the tool applies it before drawing the mark, so portrait shots stay upright and the mark lands where the preview showed it. The preview shows the first photo in the list, so we suggest putting a portrait and a landscape photo at the top of the list and checking both.

In our reading, a corner mark has the same width as a fraction of the photo's width in both shapes, so on a tall portrait photo it looks smaller against the picture's height than on a landscape one. We suggest running portrait and landscape photos as separate batches, with a slightly larger Size (% of image width) for the portrait batch if you want the mark to look the same. Where the mark belongs on a photo is in our guide to where to put a watermark.

Sources

Checked October 30, 2026.

• helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/desktop/export-photos/export-files-disk-or-cd.html
• helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/desktop/workspace/using-watermark-editor.html