Add a text or graphic watermark to your images with this timesaving tool

Image watermarking is a technique for applying text or an image over another image in such a way that the overlay transforms the base image. It's often used for branding or copyright purposes, because removing the watermark is a difficult task.

This watermark tool offers a quick way to "stamp" an image you select with text or another image. It's also a teaching tool, designed to demonstrate coding techniques described in the article "Watermark your images with this VB.NET code." It includes a View Source Code option so you can see what's going on behind the scenes, and it installs full source code for itself, so that you can experiment with it and modify it to suit your needs. (The .NET Framework 2.0 SDK is required to compile it and Visual Studio 2005 is best for working with the source code.)