How easily a watermark is cropped out
Measured, not guessed: how much of a photo survives a crop that removes the watermark, for a corner mark, a centred mark and a repeated lattice — read off this site's own crop check.
The quickest way a mark comes off
Most watermarks that disappear are not painted out. They are cropped: someone trims the edge of the picture where the mark sits and keeps the rest. So the most useful single number about a placement is how much of the picture a crop can keep while losing the mark entirely.
This site measures exactly that. Its crop check draws the mark — at full strength, by the same renderer that writes your file — onto a small copy of the frame, marks every pixel the mark touches, and finds the largest crop with the picture’s own proportions that touches none of them. The figures below are what that check reported, not estimates.
The test
One photograph, 2,400 × 1,600 pixels (3:2), a sky-and-trees landscape drawn by a script for this test. The mark is the studio’s default wording, “© Your name”, 24 % of the picture’s width with a 4 % inset; the lattices use the three density presets on the tiled mode. Each figure was read from the crop check on the placement mode on 1 November 2026.
| Bottom right corner | 82 % of the picture kept |
|---|---|
| Bottom centre | 82 % kept |
| Centre | 24 % kept |
| Repeated, Light (gaps 2.4 × 3.2) | no clean crop larger than 5 % |
| Repeated, Standard (1.6 × 2.4) | no clean crop larger than 1 % |
| Repeated, Dense (1.1 × 1.6) | no clean crop larger than 1 % |