Protecting Your Site's Content
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Content protection is important, especially when it comes to intellectual property on your site.
Add a watermark while editing images in the Photo Studio, or enable it in your Photo Albums and the Art Store.
Add a watermark while editing images in the Photo Studio, or enable it in your Photo Albums and the Art Store.
You can also add a Pro Gallery that includes a built-in right-click protect feature for your photos and videos. Alternatively, to protect your entire site, you can add the Right Click Protect app to prevent visitors from downloading your site content.
In this article, learn more about:
Adding a watermark with Photo Studio
Wix Photo Studio is a versatile tool that allows you to edit, adjust, and customize your images. Use the text tool to manually add a watermark to your photos. You can even adjust the font, size, format, and opacity.
To add a watermark:
Wix Editor
Studio Editor
Wix app
- Go to your editor.
- Click the Settings icon
.
- Click Adjust.
- Click Text on the left.
- Select a text style and click to add it to your image.
- Enter your chosen watermark message.
- (Optional) Click Design to customize the text:
- Font: Click the relevant drop-down menu to change your font and font size.
- Styles: Format your text using the options: Bold, Italic or Underline and choose your text color.
- Alignment: Choose your text alignment: Left, Center, Right or Justify and adjust your line spacing.
- Opacity: Increase or decrease the transparency of your text.
- Rotate and flip: Change your text orientation: Rotate left
, Rotate right 
, Flip horizontally 
or Flip vertically 
.
- Click Save at the top right.
Enabling watermarks in Photo Album and Art Store
You can enable and display a built in watermark with Photo Albums and Art Store. You can edit the text and symbol, and even upload your own file to use as a watermark.
Click an option below to see how to add a watermark from each app.
Photo Albums
Art Store
Note:
It is not possible to add watermarks to product images in Wix Stores, although you can manually add a watermark to the image before uploading it.
Right Click Protect in Pro Galleries
Keep your images safe by displaying them in a Wix Pro Gallery. Pro Gallery has built-in protection from right-clicking on desktop, so visitors can't save your images with a right click.
Pro Galleries have many different layout options available, and you can easily add them from your editor.
Note:
If you decide later that you do want to allow site visitors to download your images, you can enable this option in the Pro Gallery settings.
Tip:
Want to add a watermark to your pro gallery images? Vote for this option
Using the Right Click Protect app
The Right Click Protect is an app available from the Wix App Market. When a visitor right clicks your content, they'll see a message informing them that the content is copyrighted.
You can add it to your site through the App Market, and edit the message that is displayed through the settings.
Important:
The Right Click Protect app does not prevent visitors using Ctrl+C to copy your content. Vote for this option
To add the Right Click Protect app:
Wix Editor
Studio Editor
- Go to your editor.
- Click Add Apps
on the left side of the editor. - Search for the Right Click Protect app in the search bar.
- Click Add to Site.
- (Optional) Click Settings to edit the message shown.
Note:
Currently, it is not possible to add a watermark or custom logo to videos with Wix Video, however, you can add a custom logo to embedded videos. If you would like the option to add a watermark to videos in Wix Video, vote for the feature.
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