Image Overlay — Put One Image on Top of Another Online

Upload your base photo, then add a PNG overlay with transparency. Position and resize it to fit. This is useful for adding logos, stickers, or watermark badges. Compositing runs on our secure servers and exports a high-quality file that's ready for social or web use.

Yes. Adjust opacity for subtle branding, reorder layers to manage foreground and background, and scale precisely to align edges. These controls help you build polished compositions for ads, YouTube thumbnails, and product mockups without advanced design skills.

Use transparent PNGs or SVGs for overlays, and JPG or PNG for the background photo. Transparent assets ensure clean edges for logos and icons. Our export produces a compatible JPEG that looks crisp on mobile and desktop while keeping file sizes reasonable.

No. Overlays are applied non-destructively on top of your base image and keep its aspect ratio. Free downloads use the web-size resolution limit; Premium unlocks the original-resolution result for brand assets, marketing visuals and ecommerce images.

Yes. The clean web-size overlay is processed safely, and uploaded data is removed under our Security policy. Premium unlocks the original-resolution result for client projects, influencer collaborations and promo graphics.

Add a logo to lifestyle photos, place product shots on branded backgrounds, create sale stickers for ads, or watermark photography before sharing. Overlaying images helps maintain consistent branding and improves click-through rates by making visuals instantly recognizable.

Upload a base photo, add the second image on top, then drag, resize and position it where you want. Use the blend slider to control how transparent the top layer is - lower it for a soft, see-through composite or keep it solid for a clean paste. Export a single combined JPG when you are done.

The Blend mode dropdown offers 16 real compositing modes: Multiply darkens by combining colors (good for shadows and grunge textures), Screen lightens the result (good for light leaks and glows), Overlay boosts contrast, and modes like Hue, Saturation and Color transfer only that specific color property from the overlay onto the base image. Try a few on the same pair of images — each produces a visually distinct composite.

Open the Position & Size panel and type exact values into the X Position and Y Position fields (measured in pixels from the top-left of the base image), plus Width and Height for the overlay's exact size. This is more precise than dragging when you need pixel-perfect placement, for example aligning a logo to the same corner across a batch of similarly-sized photos.

For a watermark that shouldn't distract from the photo, use Normal blend mode with Blend Percentage lowered to around 30–50% so the logo stays visible but see-through. For a bold sticker or badge meant to stand out, keep Normal mode near 90–100% opacity, or try Multiply/Soft Light at 60–80% on textured backgrounds to let the base image's tones show through naturally.

Yes — on a touchscreen, place two fingers on the overlay and pinch to resize it proportionally around the pinch midpoint, in addition to dragging the eight corner and edge handles or typing exact Width and Height values in the Position & Size panel. This makes precise placement possible even without a mouse.

The overlay can be resized down to 20×20 pixels at minimum, and up to the full width and height of your base image at maximum. The resize handles, the pinch gesture, and the numeric Width/Height fields are all clamped to this range automatically, so you can't drag or type the overlay outside the base photo's bounds.

The interactive canvas is a fast, simplified preview: it only simulates the Blend Percentage as a plain opacity fade while you drag and resize, regardless of which Blend mode is selected in the dropdown. The actual Multiply, Screen, Hue and other compositing math is computed server-side and only shows up once you click through to process and download the image, so don't judge a blend mode by the live preview — check the processed result instead.

Yes — Pixoate supports batch and bulk processing. Switch to Batch mode, add up to 60 images on Premium or 200 on Pro, set your options once, and every image is processed with the same settings before you download a single ZIP. Bulk processing is a Premium feature; the output uses the same quality and settings as single mode.

Yes — with bulk processing you configure the settings a single time and they apply to every item in the batch — up to 60 images on Premium or 200 on Pro. There is no need to repeat the setup per item, and Temporary uploaded and generated files are processed securely and deleted automatically.

Almost always one of three things. The file is over the 20 MB free upload limit — Premium takes 50 MB and Pro 120 MB. The format is not one this tool accepts, so check the list shown on the upload panel. Or the file is not really the format its name says: renaming a file does not change what is inside it, and that is the reason a valid-looking image gets refused.

Yes — where there is a strength or intensity control, the default is deliberately obvious so you can see what the tool does. Most photos read better well below it. Bring the strength down until the effect looks like a decision rather than a filter, and compare against your original before you download.

Image Overlay supports free standard use within the published processing allowances. Free downloads are clean — no watermark. No signup is required for standard tool use. Photo effects and AI edits have a web-size limit on Free, with the original-resolution result available through Premium or one credit. Crop, resize, rotate, compress and convert stay full size. Premium supports batches of up to 60 files, with the applicable plan limits shown before processing.

No — Image Overlay runs in the browser on desktop and phone. There is nothing to install, no trial to start, and no license to buy before you can see whether it does what you need. Try it on the file you are actually stuck with rather than a sample.