NB! Watermark functionality works only with PNG, JPG, and JPEG graphic assets. Watermarking of videos, PDFs and text documents is not supported at the moment.
Creating Your Watermark
Log into your Pics.io account. In the upper right corner of your screen, find the Settings icon. Hover over it and choose “My team” from the dropdown menu. From there, choose “Watermarking” from the menu to your left.
By default, you will have one pre-set watermark which you can edit (change size, opacity, and position). Though, it's not possible to change the naming of the default watermarking and delete it.
To create a new watermark, click “Create new watermark” and give it a name. Once created, you can also give it an optional description in the respective field to remember its purpose.
From there, you may choose if you want your new watermark to be laid over as text or image by clicking the respective radio button. If you are moving forward with the first option, simply input the text that you’d like to see as your watermark. If you are going with the second option, upload an image that you’d like to use as your watermark. The image in question must:
Have a transparent background;
Have PNG extension;
Be under 5MB in size.
For both options, you can adjust the watermark’s size, opacity, and position. The first two options are adjusted by their respective sliders. To adjust the position, you can use the radio buttons under the watermarked preview and choose from 9 possible placements.
Finally, you can click the “Make as default” to make this specific watermark a default selection for watermarking.
NB! You can also quickly access Watermarking editing features by clicking on the Settings icon next to Watermarks in the asset Infopanel:
Updating Your Watermark
At any point, you can decide to update your watermark. Simply apply desired changes and the watermark will be updated in real-time. However, keep in mind that if the edited watermark is applied to your assets, you will be prompted to confirm the changes before they are applied.
Managing Watermark Permissions
Pics.io allows you to define which team members can create/edit watermarks and which team members can apply/remove them. In the upper right corner of your screen, find the Settings icon. Hover over it and choose “My team” from the dropdown menu. From there, select “Roles” (1) from the menu to your left. Select the role (2) for which you would like to adjust permissions. In the “Team Permissions”, find the “Create, edit, delete watermarks” (3) rule. Tick checkmark next to the rule to allow the selected role to create watermarks.
Scroll down to the Collection Permission and find the “Manage Watermarks” rule. Similar to the above, tick corresponding checkmarks to allow the selected role to apply/remove watermarks and to download assets without watermark.
Difference Between Team and Collection permissions
The main distinction between the permissions to create and apply watermarks is that the first permission applies globally while the second one can be restricted to specific collections. If watermark creation was collection-wide permission, it would create a potential scenario where you can access watermarks only from certain collections and nowhere else which does not make sense.
Conversely, collection-wide permission to apply watermarks ensures that your teammates don’t accidentally remove or add watermarks from specific assets.
For example: let’s say you have a team of graphic designers that needs access to raw assets. To ensure that they can remove watermarks only from WIP assets, you can grant them collection-wide permission. To do so, first select the role for which you’d like to adjust the permission. Then, click the paperclip icon next to your root collection and choose the desired collection. We are using “Raw Assets” (1) in this example:
Click on the collection folder (2) that appears next to your root collection. Scroll down until you find the “Manage watermarks” rule and tick the checkmarks near those that you want to enable.
NB! If you want the chosen role to have watermark permissions only inside specific collections, double-check that they have these permissions removed on the root level.
Applying a Watermark
When applying the watermark, there are several scenarios you must consider, such as applying a watermark to a single asset or in bulk and whether you’re applying a watermark to a fresh asset or updating an asset with an already applied watermark. Although Pics.io makes all these tasks trivial, it is important to go through each scenario individually.
For all scenarios, you need to return to your collection view first. To do so, either press ESC on your keyboard or click the “X” icon in the upper right corner of your screen. You’ll be redirected to Pics.io main page from which you can navigate to your desired collection.
No Existing Watermark
In the collection, click on an image that you’d like to watermark. In the upper right
corner of your screen, click on the Infopanel to bring up the asset details. In the panel to your right, scroll until you find the desired “Watermarks” (1) option. From the
dropdown menu, select the preferred watermark (2). Toggle the radio button (3) to apply the watermark.
Removing Watermark
To remove the watermark from a single asset, toggle the radio button once again.
Changing Existing Watermark
To pick another watermark, simply select a new one from the dropdown menu.
Applying Watermark to Multiple Assets
In your collection view, tick checkmarks (1) on all assets that you’d like to watermark to
bulk select them. In the upper right corner of your screen, click on the Infopanel (2) icon to bring up assets’ details.
In the Infopanel, scroll down until you find the “Watermarks” (3) option. From the
drop-down menu, choose the watermark (4) that you’d like to apply. Toggle the radio
button (5). You will be prompted to choose between all assets or only those without an existing watermark. Make your selection and click “OK” to apply watermarks.
Once you do, you should see watermarks on all selected assets.
Removing Watermarks from Multiple Assets
To remove watermark from multiple assets at once, tick checkmarks on all desired
assets to bulk select them. Then, toggle the Watermarks radio button, and click
“Confirm” on the pop-up prompt to remove watermarks.
Once you do, you should see all selected assets without watermarks.
Changing Existing Watermarks
Tick checkmarks on all desired assets to bulk select them. In the panel to your right,
scroll down to the Watermarks option and select a new watermark from the drop-down menu. You will be prompted to choose between all assets or only those without a watermark.
Selecting “All assets” will change the watermark on all selected assets.
Selecting “Non watermarked assets” will apply a watermark only to those assets that
don’t have any. Already watermarked assets will remain intact:
Downloading a Single Asset Without Watermark
In the asset Infopanel, click on the three vertical dots (1). Select the “Download” (2) option.
If you want to download an asset without a watermark, select the respective option in the pop-up prompt:
Downloading Multiple Assets Without Watermark
The process is quite similar to the download of a single asset. Tick checkmarks on all assets that you’d like to download.
In the Infopanel, click on the three vertical dots. Select the “Download” option. If you want to download assets without a watermark, select the respective option in the pop-up prompt:
Websites & Watermark Functionality
The Pics.io websites feature fully supports watermarking functionality. Once you publish a website with watermarked assets, you’ll see them like any other asset.
NB! You cannot remove a watermark from a published website, so if you need to keep some assets without watermarks, double-check before publishing a collection.
How to Quickly Find Watermarked Assets
The Pics.io search function can help you find all assets with watermarks on them across all collections. The easiest way to do it is by using Saved Searches functionality that you сan access by clicking on the magnifying glass icon on the panel to your left. Find and click the “Watermarked assets” option. Once you do, you’ll see the list of all assets that have a watermark on them.