# Automatic watermark for photo uploads

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-watermark-for-photo-uploads/132725
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 6, 2019, 10:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-watermark-for-photo-uploads/132725 "2019-11-06T10:09:01Z")
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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-watermark-for-photo-uploads/132725/4 "2019-11-06T16:41:53Z")

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Would the photos have a different watermark for each user? That’s been discussed before and it would be very expensive.

> [@Watermark on images with user name on it](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watermark-on-images-with-user-name-on-it/123389/7):
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> Isn’t this phrobitively costly? For a forum with 10k users and 100k images you need to generate 1000000000 images for each resolution and thumbnails.

A general watermark for the website would be easier, but there’s no plugin that exists at the moment to do it.

At the moment there is a setting called `prevent anons from downloading files` that will prevent some image access, but a technically savvy user can circumvent it.

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