How to watermark photos online and how to protect your digital assets

Here I am going to explore ways to add watermark images, photos, videos and protect your digital assets from copying.

Before that, a look at what does it mean to watermark a photo:

I am not going to repeat, Here is the link which briefly explains reason for watermarking your photos. Main reasons being copyright protect the digital work, and remarketing their brand.

There are many online and offline tools which does that but in this digital world I believe there isn’t any need for an offline tool anymore, with online tools you can perform watermarking your photos from any device from any place and with full security.

Again in online mode, there are different stretegies being used

• Upload all your images to a server, server performs the watermarking, stores the file on their server and you could download the files. There is a risk involved here because your digital asset is being moved to a server which may or may not be protected from copyrights.
• The other secure and best way is to load all the scripts on the client’s browser and perform the watermarking on browser without the server knowing what actually the digital asset is about and avoid moving your asset out of your network. The files doesn’t get pulled to any server which means highest security to your files. This technique is as good as working offline on a software. Secure and safe

Note: To make sure your digital assets are 100% secured and protected, the files should not go out of your network or computer and if it does then you need to be 101% sure those files are protected, secured and will be deleted once the processing is done.

Below is the list of such sites which makes sure your files are protected and never goes off your machine and still watermarks your images or videos

1. Watermarquee.com : Provides free service if you want to watermark 5 images, but pay for more than 5 images. Their pricing is decent too around 10–12$ lifetime licence which is really good. Just a note that uploading batch of images may not work properly as its client side processing (meaning the file doesn’t go to any server it processes at your browser using website’s script). This does gives protection but batch updating will be slow.
2. Wewatermark.com: A simplistic approach online tool to add watermark to one image at a time. They do have bulk/batch support announced but currently its under development. The feature list looks impressive if they are able to deliver. This is Https SSL secured site and again your files are not going out of your machine/network.

The market requirement seems to be watermarking batch images at once hassle free, although watermarquee provides a sleeker solution but still it doesn’t work with a load of 10k images at once. Market demands a better, elegant and secured solution.