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Adding watermark text on images is a very interesting topic. Inside this article we will see the concept i.e How to add watermark text on images laravel 8.

This article will be step by step. Very super easy to learn and implement it in your project.

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Inside laravel, we have a composer package available which helps to work with Image manipulation related work. And also before working with images related tasks, you should have these extensions enabled.

GD Extension
Imagick Extension

Let’s get started.

Laravel Installation

We will create laravel project using composer. So, please make sure your system should have composer installed. If not, may be this article will help you to Install composer in system.

Here is the command to create a laravel project-

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

To start the development server of Laravel –

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000

Assuming laravel already installed inside your system.

Required PHP Extensions

While working with image related stuff in PHP, make sure your PHP version should have these two most common image processing libraries GD Library and Imagick extensions enabled.

Whether your system already contains these extensions or not you can verify like this –

Create info.php file at your localhost directory
<?php phpinfo(); ?> Add this code into info.php file.
Run this file into browser

You should see these information into php information page.

GD Extension Enabled

Imagick Extension Enabled

So, these two extensions we need, if you don’t have. Please install it first.

Install Intervention Image Package

Open project into terminal and run this given composer command. It will install the intervention image library to application.

This package helps us to create image thumbnails, watermarks, or format large image files.

$ composer require intervention/image

It will install the image package into application.

Add Package Settings to Application

Open app.php file from /config folder.

Search for providers, add this line into array.

//...

 Intervention\Image\ImageServiceProvider::class

Search for aliases, add this line into array.

//...

'Image' => Intervention\Image\Facades\Image::class

Download Font Family – WaterMark Text

You can use any font family for your text. This font family is optional. If you don’t want you can skip this step.

We will use Roboto + Mono Font, Click here to go to download.

It will download a zipped folder. Unzip that, copy .ttf file and place it into /public folder. We will use this font in code for watermark text.

Add Routes

Open web.php file from /routes folder. Add these routes into this file.

# Add this to header
use App\Http\Controllers\DataController;

//...

Route::get("image-upload", [DataController::class, "imageUpload"]);

Route::post("add-watermark", [DataController::class, "addWatermark"])->name('add-watermark');

Create Controller

Open project into terminal and run this artisan command.

$ php artisan make:controller DataController

It will create DataController.php inside /app/Http/Controllers folder.

Open DataController.php and write this complete code into it.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Image;

class DataController extends Controller
{
    public function imageUpload()
    {
        return view('image-upload');
    }

    public function addWatermark(Request $request)
    {
        $image = $request->file('image');

        $input['image'] = time() . '.' . $image->extension();

        // Get path of images folder from /public
        $imageFilePath = public_path('images');

        $img = Image::make($image->path());

        $img->text('By Online Web Tutor', 450, 100, function ($font) {
            // Using font family here
            $font->file(public_path('RobotoMono-VariableFont_wght.ttf'));
            $font->size(40);
            $font->color('#202124');
            $font->align('center');
            $font->valign('bottom');
        });

        $img->save($imageFilePath . '/' . $input['image']);

        return back()
            ->with('success', 'Image Saved');
    }
}

Inside this text() method, we have By Online Web Tutor is text. 450 is the text position from left on image whereas 100 is position from top.
$font->file(public_path(‘RobotoMono-VariableFont_wght.ttf’)); Inclusion of font family.

Create Image Folder

We need to create a folder inside /public folder which is at root.

images folder inside as /public/images – It will store uploaded images

Create Blade Layout File

Go to /resources/views folder.

Create a file image-upload.blade.php into given folder.

Open image-upload.blade.php and write this complete code in it.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Add Watermark Text on Images - Laravel 8</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">
    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>

<body>

    <div class="container">
        <h4 style="text-align: center;">Add Watermark Text on Images - Laravel 8</h4>
        <div class="panel panel-primary">
            <div class="panel-heading">Add Watermark Text on Images - Laravel 8</div>
            <div class="panel-body">
                @if (count($errors) > 0)
                <div class="alert alert-danger">
                    Error occured.<br><br>
                    <ul>
                        @foreach ($errors->all() as $error)
                        <li>{{ $error }}</li>
                        @endforeach
                    </ul>
                </div>
                @endif

                @if ($message = Session::get('success'))
                <div class="alert alert-success">
                    <strong>{{ $message }}</strong>
                </div>
                @endif

                <form action="{{ route('add-watermark') }}" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
                    @csrf
                    <div class="form-group">
                        <input type="file" name="image" class="form-control" class="image">
                    </div>
                    <div class="form-group">
                        <button type="submit" class="btn btn-success">Save</button>
                    </div>
                </form>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

</body>

</html>

Application Testing

Run this command into project terminal to start development server,

php artisan serve

URL – http://127.0.0.1:8000/image-upload

When we upload image, watermark text will be added into images as –

We hope this article helped you to learn How To Add WaterMark Text On Images Laravel 8 in a very detailed way.

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