{"id":102460,"date":"2012-11-07T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=102460"},"modified":"2013-09-08T18:08:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T22:08:25","slug":"wordpress-watermark-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wordpress-watermark-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"5 WordPress Watermark Plugins: Protect Images or Get Free Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102462\" title=\"watermark-big\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/watermark-big.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"549\" height=\"403\" \/><br \/>\nWatermarking your images tends to serve one of two very important purposes. It can either discourage others from taking your images and using them as their own, or it can offer you a nice opportunity to advertise yourself if others do happen to take your images. In fact, you may even want others to take your watermarked images and place them far and wide wherever they like. It\u2019s akin to free advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Below we\u2019ve collected the five best free WordPress watermarking plugins we could find. Some allow you place text watermarks. Some allow image watermarks. And some allow both. The amount of control different plugins give you over your watermark can vary greatly, so you\u2019ll want to think about exactly what you want from your watermarks in order to choose the right plugin for you.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>1. Watermark Reloaded<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/watermark-reloaded\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watermark Reloaded<\/a> plugin lets you choose to place a text watermark of your choosing on newly uploaded images. You can choose to watermark thumbnail sized images, medium, large, or full-sized images.<\/p>\n<p>The plugin lets you set the position of the watermark, as well as the font type, font size, and font color.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at the settings page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102466\" title=\"watermark-reloaded-settings\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/watermark-reloaded-settings.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s a look at an image with a watermark.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102467\" title=\"watermark-reloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/watermark-reloaded.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"549\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n\n<h2><strong>2. Watermark My Image<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/watermark-my-image\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watermark My Image<\/a> plugin puts up to two text watermarks of your choice in a bar below your image.<\/p>\n<p>You can choose the text for both watermarks, as well as the color, the font, the size, and the positioning (either left or right).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at an image with two different text watermarks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102468\" title=\"watermark-my-image\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/watermark-my-image.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"547\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s a look at the setting page (for one of the text watermarks).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102469\" title=\"watermark-my-image-settings\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/watermark-my-image-settings.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"546\" height=\"1014\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>3. Scissors and Watermark<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/scissors-watermark\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scissors and Watermark<\/a> plugin provides both editing tools (that\u2019s the \u201cscissors\u201d part) and watermarking. We\u2019ll only cover the watermarking function here.<\/p>\n<p>This plugin allows you to put a watermark image of your choice on your pictures. You can control the positioning of the image and decide which size images your watermark should be applied to (large, medium, thumbnail, full, custom). You can allow the watermark image to be resized automatically and to limit the watermark to a certain percentage of the image.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at the settings (available on WordPress\u2019s Media Settings page).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102464\" title=\"scissors-and-watermark-media-settings\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scissors-and-watermark-media-settings.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"546\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s a look at an image with a watermark on it. (Obviously you can make your watermarks more attractive than my quickly put together image.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102465\" title=\"scissors-and-watermark\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scissors-and-watermark.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"546\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n\n<h2><strong>4. Signature Watermark<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/signature-watermark\/\" target=\"_blank\">Signature Watermark<\/a> plugin lets you place a text or an image watermark on you pictures. Or you can place both on your pictures.<\/p>\n<p>With the text watermark, you can control the width of the text as a percentage of the picture it\u2019s placed on; however, you cannot control the positioning of the watermark. (It goes in the center.) You can control the color, the font, and the transparency.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at an image with only a text watermark.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102470\" title=\"signature-watermark-text\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/signature-watermark-text.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"550\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at an image with only an image watermark.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102471\" title=\"signature-watermark-image\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/signature-watermark-image.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"550\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s a look with both.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102472\" title=\"signature-watermark\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/signature-watermark.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"545\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at the settings page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102473\" title=\"signature-watermark-settings\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/signature-watermark-settings.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"550\" height=\"1198\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>5. Transparent Image Watermark<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/transparent-image-watermark-plugin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transparent Image Watermark<\/a> plugin lets you watermark images with transparent PNG images. While this plugin doesn\u2019t allow for positioning, it does allow you to specify width of the watermark as a percentage of the width of the picture you\u2019re watermarking.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at a sample image taken from the plugin\u2019s info page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102474\" title=\"transparent-image-watermark\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/transparent-image-watermark.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"546\" height=\"403\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s a look at the settings page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102475\" title=\"transparent-image-watermark-settings\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/transparent-image-watermark-settings.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"546\" height=\"484\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/image-15033359\/stock-photo-fresh-lemon-dropped-into-water-with-splash-isolated-on-white\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh lemon dropped into water with splash isolated on white<\/a> from Bigstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get free advertising via your images or discourage others from using them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":102463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-102460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216455,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102460\/revisions\/216455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102460"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=102460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}