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
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:

  1. Click your image.
  2. Click the Settings icon .
  3. Click Adjust.
  4. Click Text on the left.
  5. Select a text style and click to add it to your image.
  6. Enter your chosen watermark message.
  7. (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: BoldItalic or Underline and choose your text color.
    • Alignment: Choose your text alignment: LeftCenterRight 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 .
  8. Click Save at the top right.
A screenshot of adding a text watermark to an image of a woman running in the Wix Photo Studio.

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. 
A screenshot of a watermark on an image in a Pro Gallery.
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 protect 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. 

To add a Pro Gallery:

  1. Click Add Elements on the left of the editor.
  2. Click Gallery.
  3. Click Pro Galleries.
  4. Click or drag your chosen gallery to add it to your site.
  5. (Optional) Enable downloads in the Pro Gallery:
    1. Click the Wix Pro Gallery in your editor.
    2. Click Settings.
    3. Click the Settings tab.
    4. Enable the Download toggle.
A screenshot of organizing the Wix Pro Gallery.
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:

  1. Click Add Apps on the left of the editor.
  2. Enter "Right Click Protect" into the search bar.
  3. Click the Right Click Protect app.
  4. Click Add to Site.
  5. (Optional) Click Settings to edit the message shown. 
A GIF showing the copyright message when hovering over an image.
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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