Watermark options

Watermarks bake into the variants Encore generates from your originals. They're not overlays applied at view time. That means clients see and download already-watermarked photos, and the originals you uploaded stay clean in storage.

The four marks

• None. Clean. Default for most paid-tier galleries.
• Press. Subtle dark strip across the bottom, studio name + Roll ID in white sans. For media use.
• Personal. Small "© Studio Name" in the bottom-left corner. For clients who want to repost without a heavy bar.
• Portfolio. Full bar across the bottom with studio name in serif. For your own portfolio share-outs.

The free tier renders the Encore wordmark across every photo. Upgrading to Studio or higher unlocks the four options above.

When you change it

Picking a watermark from Gallery Settings kicks off a background regeneration. The progress badge in the panel header shows "5 / 12" as photos finish. Until a given photo's watermarked variants land, the gallery viewer falls back to the unwatermarked variant. No broken state during the rebuild.

If thumbnails look broken after a change

Hit Rebuild thumbnails in the Frames header. It force-regenerates every variant for the current watermark, overwriting any stale R2 objects.