Have you ever noticed some one else taking credit for the work you did ? You might have spend hours reviewing softwares for your blog and taking screen shots. But some one else may just take your images or videos without giving any credits to you. The best solution to this issue is to water mark all your images and videos.

Image Watermarking Tools

1. WatermarkTool

This software enables you to protect your images by adding visible watermarks.With this tool, you can apply different effects and options. It is possible to specify the exact position for the watermark to be placed and also the appearance of the watermark. The tool also enables setting of the amount of see-through. The Upload limit of the file is 200KB for the Free software and 10 MB for the WMT Plus. Image Watermark option is not available on the free software where as it is part of WMT Plus. With the paid software, it is possible to download files as Zip and save settings as well. WMT Plus costs around 50$ per year. It is also available at a rate of about 5$ per month.

2. Watermark.ws

This is one of the simpler web-based watermarking tools. IT supports textual as well as image watermarking. Some of the features with the .ws tool includes the batch image resizing and compressing facilities. The free account for the software allows an upload size of 0.5 MB, with no save-setting facility. The utilities of the .ws includes watermarking multiple photos at once and watermarking as many photos as one wishes. The .ws tool supports several formats of photos including jg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tif and tiff. One can download watermarked images in a single zipped file in the case of Watermark.ws.

3. PicMarkr Pro 1.0.0.1

This is a watermarking tool from picmarkpro.com. Just like the otherwatermarking tools, the PicMarkr allows you to protect your photos and images by watermarking them. The PicMarkr software is most useful to the Flickr users, since they can import their photos from Flickr straightaway, add watermarks and then upload back.

With PicMarkr, it is possible to alter the sizes of a batch of photos simultaneously and also rotate them. You can also add comments, logo as well to Flickr photos. We can also rename several photos at once with a few clicks. PicMarkr offers a set of professional presets for text watermarks. It is also possible to edit all the properties associated with watermarks. The paid version of the software costs $21.99, with a free trial facility prior to download.

4. Easy Watermark Creator

Image Tools Group launched the watermark tool that provides protection for images by water-marking them. The Easy Watermark Creator 1.5, the extended version gives better support for batch work. It supports command line mode and provides more options for EXIF tag information. We can use watermark protection as a part of multi-stage image processing with this tool from Image Tools group.

The tool supports image, text and date watermarking. Tile positioning and change of angle are additional features of the Easy Watermark Creator 1.5. It supports files with extensions like bmp, jpeg, psd, pcx, png, tga, ico and others. The choice of colour and transparency rest with the user. With this watermarking tool, it is possible to edit images and save changes. The personal license for this software is available at a price of $23.

5. AiS Watermark Pictures Protector (WPP)

Watermarking is done quickly and with ease, when you use the AiS WPP. This Watermarking tool reads the required image from the file and imparts the desired watermark to the image. The tool supports up to 40 different formats of files. After the watermarking is done, you can save the changes as well as save it in a new format. The AiS WPP is the tool of interest for professionals including painters, banner-makers and designers. This software is available as a standalone tool for Windows 95/98/ME/NT as well as Windows XP. It is also available as an ActiveX element.

With the AiS WPP, it is possible to add watermarks that are customizable. Transparency emulation is possible with black and white images. Embossing of Watermarks is an additional feature on the AiS WPP. Batch processing is possible with this watermarking tool, like many others. The exceptional feature with the AiS WPP is that it functions from the command line.

6. PhotoX Batch Watermark Creator

This is the name of another watermarking software available online to the users. This software helps watermark your images to avoid third-party use or access of the photos. The watermarks can be both text and image watermarks. For text watermark, we can set the font size and shape as per wish. It can be italics or bold or a combination of both. It is possible to set watermarks at different positions of the image. Diagonal placement of the watermark is also possible. Like any other tool available for watermarking, you can use the PhotoX Batch software to set different levels of transparency as well.

Video Watermarking Tools

1. LiveAlpha

LiveAlpha is a software plug-in that can be used to watermark video files.This is the tool that is used to generate characters or titles on videos. The size, shape and appearance of the titles or watermarks can be set by the user. It is also possible to set the transparency of the watermark with LiveAlpha. The software comes with several features including colour masking and alpha channel support. Fade in/out control can be controlled with this software whose performance is unlike any other video watermarking software. It utilizes a very small part of the processor capacity and provides quick access to titles.

You can organize titles with this tool, thanks to the facility of saving configuration options.You can control the duration of fadein/out with LiveAlpha, the accuracy being of the range of one-tenth of a second. The software supports file formats like tga, bmp, emf, exif and jpeg among several others. The software is also powered to support the future of webcasting, the HD version.

2. Video Watermark Factory

This is another Video Watermarking tool that helps you protect your exclusive videos with digital watermarks. With Video Watermark Factory, you can add watermark to video files in the batch mode. Watemarks are useful in protecting the videos as well as titling the existing videos. VWF is an excellent support for watermarking your videos with your own logos to protect them from illegal copying and to add titles of your wish to the existing ones.

An important feature of VWF is that you can download long video files as small fragments, which would otherwise prove very difficult to work with or download. Setting opacity of the watermarks and aligning your watermarks are common tasks you perform with any watermark tool, which you find in the Video Watermark Factory as well. With Video Watermark Factory you can add a large array of special effects to your videos which include blur, denoiser, deinterlace and posterise, to name a few.

3. Ease123 Video Watermarker

Ease123, with its ability to impart text as well as image watermarks on videos is one among the best video watermarking softwares available today. This tool also allowas animated GIFs watermarks that give your videos a new and superb look. This software can work on files with extensions like .avi, .mpeg and several others. This tool helps you finish your work in a short time and apply several effects to your watermarks at the same time.

You can apply transparency, emboss and opacity features to your watermarks. The attractive feature about this software is its simple user interface. Select the video that you want to apply watermark on, introduce the text or image watermark, then press “Watermark Video” button. With this tool it is also possible to set AVI saving and video options. Ease123 as the name suggests is a tool for beginners with its simple user interface, but not suitable for complex works.

4. Watermark Master 1.0.33

Watermark Master 1.0.33 is the professional watermarking software that allows watermarking for your favourite videos. With this software you can add text and image watermarks to videos, as you would expect in a regular watermarking software. You can also add animated watermarks, audio watermarks and blur areas as well. This is a video editor software that can perform several alterations on videos. It has a clear interface and a wizard that makes operations easy.

The software has a set of filters, flip/rotate features and the Grabber function. It can also perform the Watch Folder function. Watermark Master allows the broadest set of watermark types on a video. Batch processing is also supported on this watermark tool. This software supports avi, mpeg, dvd, wmv, realmedia and several other formats.