How to Add Text Watermark to Image in PHP?

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This simple article demonstrates of php add watermark text to image. you will learn how to add watermark text to image in php. I would like to show you php add text on image as watermark. I explained simply about add text watermark to image php. Alright, let’s dive into the steps.

Sometimes we want to add a website domain name as a watermark on each image of your website. Then I will give you a very simple example of how to add a text watermark to image in PHP. so let's simply follow below code and make it done.

Example:

Here, You need to put one image call "watermark-php-text.png". Then you have to download font from google fonts and put in folder. You can download from here: Download Font.

Let's copy below code and create index.php file.

index.php

<?php
  
$sourceImage = "watermark-php-text.png";
  
$imagetobewatermark = imagecreatefrompng($sourceImage);
$watermarktext="ITSOLUTIONSTUFF.COM";
$font= "fonts/Roboto/Roboto-Bold.ttf";
$fontsize="22";
$white = imagecolorallocate($imagetobewatermark, 51, 102, 0);
  
$image = imagecreatefrompng($sourceImage);
$imageSize = getimagesize($sourceImage);
  
$wmX = $imageSize[0] - 380;
$wmY = $imageSize[1] - 20;
  
imagettftext($imagetobewatermark, $fontsize, 0, $wmX, $wmY, $white, $font, $watermarktext);
  
header("Content-type:image/png");
/*
  For Save Image
  imagepng($imagetobewatermark, $sourceImage);
*/
  
imagepng($imagetobewatermark);
imagedestroy($imagetobewatermark);

Output:

I hope it can help you...