How we write our guides

Each Fix Watermark guide answers one question, gives the answer first and links the pages it relies on. This page explains how the guides are made, so you can judge how far to trust one.

One question, answered first

Every guide starts from a question people ask, such as how to add a watermark in a particular app or what a copyright notice should say. The first paragraph answers it in a sentence or two. The rest of the page shows how, then answers the questions that usually come next. A guide should be useful even if you never use our tools, and it points to our free watermark tools only where they are the easy way to do the job.

Where the steps and rules come from

Steps for another company's app come from that maker's own help pages. Rules come from the platform, the agency or the standards body that publishes them. We link those pages where we use them, and each guide names the app version and the system its steps were checked on. Near the end of every guide, just before its questions, a Sources list collects the outside pages it links, with the date they were last read. When a guide gives our own view, it says so with words such as "we suggest", so you can tell advice from fact. Where a guide describes copyright law, it is United States law unless the guide names another jurisdiction's rule, and the guide ends with a note that it is general information, not legal advice.

Numbers we work out ourselves

Some guides report numbers that we computed, for example how much of a watermark is left after a crop. Those guides have a section called "How we measured". It states the inputs, the method and what we did not test, so you can repeat the work and reach the same numbers.

AI assistance and checking

The guides are drafted with AI assistance. Before a guide is published, every claim in it is checked against the sources linked on the page, and a claim we cannot check is left out. That is why each guide carries the line "Drafted with AI assistance and checked against the sources linked on this page."

Updates and corrections

A guide is updated when an app or a rule it describes changes. The Updated date on a guide moves only for a substantive change, such as new steps or a corrected fact. If you find a mistake, email hello@fixwatermark.com with the address of the guide and what is wrong, and we will check it against the source. You can also browse all the guides.