Very User Friendly – Works As Advertised

I tried Image Watermark plugin, despite the few negative reviews, and found that it works exactly as advertised. It’s also very simple to use. If you already have a library full of images to protect, here’s a quick walkthrough: Create a PNG image to use as your watermark, upload it to your media library, install the plugin, adjust the parameters to your preference and be sure to connect the plugin to your watermark PNG file. Save the settings (surprising how often this step is missed). Next go to the media library, you should see a message indicating that Image Watermark can only be used in “List” mode, so change the library to “List” and select the images you want watermarked. Then choose Watermark from the dropdown, and click update. Takes a few minutes, and when it’s done all the selected images are protected.

NOTE: If you already have existing galleries before watermarking the images, you just need to edit those galleries and replace the originals, with the newly watermarked images from your library. I noticed that the images in my galleries did not show the watermarks until I completed this step.