Signatures: sign your work once, then everywhere

Working photographers want their mark on the work they ship. It might be a subtle text copyright in the bottom-right corner of a portfolio shot. It might be the studio logo across the bottom of client-gallery downloads. Either way, doing it manually on every photo is tedious. The Signatures library is built for this.

Two kinds of signatures

• Text signature. Pick from the full Google Fonts catalogue, set color, weight, optional drop shadow and border. Useful for typographic marks like "© Studio Name 2026" or a personal monogram in a serif face.
• Image signature. Upload a PNG or SVG with transparency. Useful for your actual studio logo or a hand-drawn signature you scanned.

Building one

1. BokehFrames dashboard → Signatures.
2. Click + Text signature or + Image signature.
3. For text: type the text, pick font / color / weight / shadow / border. Live preview against a photo background plus light and dark tiles so you can see how it reads everywhere.
4. For image: drag the PNG / SVG.
5. Set defaults: position (4 corners or center), opacity, scale.
6. Toggle "Make this my default signature" if you want it to be the first one offered in editor toolbars.
7. Save.

Unlimited signatures per account, no tier cap. Studios usually have 2–4 (light logo for dark photos, dark logo for light photos, text copyright, full lockup).

Using a signature in the editor

Open any photo in our editor. The toolbar has a Signature button. Click → dropdown of your saved signatures with thumbnails. Click one → the signature lands in the open document as a new layer. Position it like any other layer. Save back to your album when you're done.

Under the hood we render the signature to a PNG (canvas for text signatures, fetched bytes for image signatures), post it into the editor, then apply it to your original as a new layer. The full blend-mode / opacity controls work on the resulting layer.

What v1.1 adds — Fotobot and miniPaint

Signatures integration is rolling out across our in-browser editors — Fotobot (our quick-edit tool built on Filerobot) and miniPaint are next. Both are smaller pieces of work; we'll post in the changelog when each ships.

v2 — auto-apply

The interesting future use case isn't adding signatures by hand in the editor. It's configuring an album so every photo a client downloads gets watermarked automatically — your original library stays clean, the version served to the client is signed. Two settings power that:

• Per-album auto-apply on upload. Every new photo in this album gets the chosen signature baked in.
• Per-shared-album watermark on download. Originals stay clean in your library; downloads served to clients get watermarked at delivery time. Originals + watermarked variants live side-by-side in S3.

Both are queued; tell us if they'd be material to your workflow and we'll prioritize.

Exporting a signature for external use

We'll add a "Download as PNG" action per signature (v2 follow-up). You'll be able to grab the transparent PNG to use in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, or anywhere else outside BokehFrames — so your watermark stays visually consistent across every tool you work in.

Tracking

Signature library + editor integration live today. Fotobot + miniPaint integrations and the auto-apply / client-download / video signature features are tracked as separate follow-up tasks. The changelog announces each.