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How to make a watermark in Procreate

In Procreate for iPad, tap Actions, Add, Add Text, type your mark on its own layer, then lower the layer's opacity from its Blend Modes menu. Hide the Background Color layer and choose Actions, Share, PNG to export a PNG file that keeps transparency.

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Add the mark as text on its own layer

Procreate shows added text as a Text layer in the Layers panel, so your signature or name is a layer of its own. In Procreate for iPad (the Handbook offers versions 5.4 to 5.0; steps checked October 2026), following Procreate's text page:

  1. Tap Actions > Add > Add Text.
  2. Type into the Text box with the keyboard, or use Apple Pencil to Scribble.
  3. Tap Edit Style (or Aa) at the top right of the keyboard to change the font and style.
  4. Drag the active bounding box around the canvas to move it.

Procreate says the text appears in your currently selected colour and uses its default font, Helvetica Neue. Double-tapping the text brings up its Text Entry Companion, where tapping the font name opens the Edit Style Panel. On Procreate Pocket (iPhone), the Handbook's text page says to expand the top toolbar with the ellipsis icon, then tap Actions (wrench) > Add > Add Text.

Procreate says that as vector or raster text you can still move it, transform it uniformly and change its opacity. Rasterizing turns text into pixel data that you can paint, distort and merge, but only the vector form lets you type new content or change the font. We suggest keeping it as text until you are happy with the wording.

Watermark ideas for art

These are our suggestions, not Procreate's. For artwork, a small signature in a corner, your name with the year, or your website address are common choices. Keep it faint enough that the picture stays the hero, and put it where it is not part of the main subject. Our guides cover a signature watermark and wider ways to protect art online. A visible mark is a signal, not protection.

Procreate's Handbook also lets you bring a saved logo or signature image into your artwork: tap Actions > Add > Insert a file, or Insert a photo for an image in your Photos app. It says you can import PNG, JPEG and PSD files (Procreate).

Lower the opacity of the watermark layer

In Procreate for iPad, per the Handbook's blend modes page (steps checked October 2026):

  1. Open the Layers panel with the button of two overlapping squares in the top-right menu bar.
  2. Tap the letter on the right of the layer, which is N for Normal, to open the Blend Modes menu.
  3. Move the opacity slider left to make the layer more transparent, or right to make it more solid.

Procreate says this changes the opacity of the entire layer, ignoring any current selection. As a shortcut, two-finger-tap the layer, then slide your finger left on the canvas. On Procreate Pocket the same slider is in the blend modes and layer opacity menu, opened by tapping the small letter to the right of the layer name. The Handbook gives no numeric range or percentage for the slider, so judge it by eye; our watermark opacity guide helps.

Export a transparent PNG from Procreate

Procreate says every artwork has a Background Color layer, and hiding it with its Visibility Checkbox gives a transparent background, which is perfect for exporting art as a PNG (Procreate). To export, per the share page (iPad, steps checked October 2026):

  1. In the Layers panel, tap the Visibility Checkbox of the Background Color layer to hide it.
  2. Tap Actions > Share > PNG.
  3. Select a destination for your file.

Procreate says PNG has the big advantage of preserving transparency, and that it flattens your artwork while keeping full image quality. JPEG also flattens your artwork into a single layer. On Procreate Pocket, the path is the ellipsis button, then Actions > Share > Share Image > PNG.

In our reading, flattening means a visible watermark layer becomes part of the exported picture. We suggest keeping your layered original unflattened, so you can change or drop the mark later.

Make the mark a reusable transparent PNG

Procreate says that under Share Layers, the PNG option treats each layer as a separate PNG file, and that only visible layers are exported. For a mark you plan to reuse, we suggest a simpler route: make a new artwork that holds only your signature or text, hide its Background Color layer and export it with Actions > Share > PNG. Then add it to a batch of finished pieces in our logo watermark tool: choose Logo, upload the PNG, set the size, position and opacity. Nothing is uploaded. 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. More on the file in our guide to a transparent PNG logo.

Sources

Checked October 30, 2026.

Questions

How do I add text to a Procreate artwork?
On iPad, tap Actions, then Add, then Add Text. Type your words and drag the bounding box to move them.
How do I make a Procreate watermark more transparent?
Tap the letter on the right of its layer to open the Blend Modes menu, then move the opacity slider left. Procreate gives no numeric range for it.
Does a Procreate PNG keep a transparent background?
Procreate says PNG preserves transparency. Hide the Background Color layer first, then choose Actions, Share, PNG.
Is the watermark layer exported with my artwork?
Procreate says PNG and JPEG flatten your artwork. We read that as including any visible watermark layer.

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