How do I add, change, or remove watermarks in my galleries?

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Create a custom text or image watermark to apply to photos in your galleries, to deter screenshots, and/or include your branding on images.

Watermarks are always removed from images purchased for print before your files are sent to any of our integrated labs for printing.

Watermarks are always removed from images when your clients purchase ShootProof-fulfilled digital downloads.

You have the option to remove or keep watermarks on images that clients download for free through Digital Rules that you create.

To be sure your watermark fits your files correctly, we do recommend uploading photos to your galleries that are at least 3,000px on the longest side.

Types of Watermarks

Watermarks can be image or text. Image watermarks should be PNG images with a transparent background. We'll scale your image up to 1000px on the long side, so we recommend you upload a file that's at least 1,000px.

Customize the position, size, and opacity of your watermarks, and optionally add AI watermark protection.

AI Watermark Protection

Our new AI watermark protection feature makes it harder for AI tools to remove watermarks from your images*. This new watermark option adds visual noise to the watermark, making it more difficult for AI tools to identify what should be kept in a photo and what should be deleted. While this will make your watermark less clear, it will not make your photos any less clear.

AI Protected Watermark before using AI removal tool: 

AI Protected Watermark after using AI removal tool: 

With this feature update, you also have the option to apply tiled watermarks for both text and photo watermarks, making it even more difficult to remove repeating watermarks from your images.

In the image below, the left side shows the AI protected watermarks and the right side shows the AI protected watermarks after using an AI watermark removal tool. 

Please note that watermarks with the AI protection feature are limited to new galleries only and cannot be refreshed on existing galleries. You can however use AI protected watermarks in the Free Digitals settings in existing galleries. 

*AI algorithms are constantly evolving, so we are unable to guarantee that these watermarks cannot be removed.

Create a Watermark 

Create and save multiple watermarks to choose from. To create one:

  1. Go to Galleries > Watermarks

  2. Choose a Text or Image watermark

  3. Chose to use the AI watermark protection feature

  4. Adjust the Watermark Settings

    • You can choose the position, size, and opacity of the watermark.

  5. Click Save

Apply a Watermark

Select a Default Watermark on the Watermarks page, and optionally turn on watermarks for all future uploads - you'll have the opportunity to turn watermarks on or off each time you upload new photos

Change or Remove a Watermark 

Adding a watermark or editing an existing watermark will only affect the way that watermark appears in future uploads. Changes won't affect photos that are already in your galleries, but you can refresh the watermark to update it in the gallery. Here's how:

  1. Go to Galleries > All Galleries and click into your gallery

  2. In your gallery, click the More Actions button at the top right

  3. Select Refresh Watermark

  4. Choose the new or updated watermark you'd like applied, or turn the toggle off to remove the watermark

  5. Click Apply Change

The photos will temporarily display as "processing." As the watermark changes are applied, you will see the images come back into the gallery.

Please note that the watermarks using the new AI protection feature cannot be refreshed in existing galleries.