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Adding and applying watermarks

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Watermarks protect your images and reinforce your brand throughout the client experience. In Pixieset, you can add customizable text or image watermarks to your galleries so your photos stay protected while looking their best.

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How watermarks work in Pixieset

  • Watermarks created in Pixieset apply to display images in your gallery.
    • For print orders, the watermark is always removed.
    • For original resolution or high resolution downloads (3600px), the watermark is always removed.
    • For web-sized downloads (640px, 1024px, or 2048px), the watermark is removed by default but you can customize it to remain in place instead.
  • Watermarks created in Pixieset do not apply to videos in the gallery or video downloads.
  • If you update a watermark file, it does not impact the photos you already watermarked. You will need to re-apply the watermark to the photos in these cases.

Creating a watermark

You can create a text or image watermark for your collections. Pixieset supports up to 3 separate watermark files in Client Gallery.

Tip: For image watermarks, we recommend uploading a PNG file with a transparent background and a minimum width of 1600px. The width or height cannot exceed 5000px.

To set up a watermark:

  1. Go to Settings > Watermark.
  2. Click + to create a new watermark.
  3. Select a watermark type and customize its opacity, scale, and position.
  4. Click Save.

Once saved, your watermark is ready to be applied to new and existing collections.

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Applying a watermark

When you have a watermark in Client Gallery, you can apply it to new photos you upload or any existing photo.

Tip: Have a default watermark you want to apply to new collections regularly? Consider setting up a preset.

Watermarking new photos

When you create a collection, you can choose a watermark you’d like to use and the preference is saved for new uploads in that collection. To watermark new photos:

  1. Click +Add Media.
  2. Confirm the watermark you’d like to use.
  3. Drag photos to upload.
  4. Once uploaded and processed, your photos will be watermarked.

Tip: You can also view and adjust the default watermark for a specific collection in that collection’s settings (Settings > General). Any updates will apply to future uploads in the collection.

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Watermarking existing photos

You can apply a watermark to photos that you already uploaded. To watermark existing photos in a collection:

  1. Select the photos you want to watermark.
  2. Click ••• in the action bar.
  3. Select Watermark.
  4. Choose your watermark and click Save.

Watermark changes can take anywhere from less than a minute to several hours to process depending on the number of images. During this time, affected photos will be unavailable.

Tip: To select all photos in the set, select one photo and then press Ctrl + A or ⌘ + A.

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