Your proofs, protected.
Every preview carries your watermark — or, by default, a grid designed against AI — and, if you want, the child’s name. Signed links expire, views are logged — and we are testing the phones’ own video protection against screenshots.
- ✓ Anti-AI grid included
- ✓ The child’s name in the proof
- ✓ Phone screenshots: in testing
Florence T. · Grade 2A
- 1Your watermark, your anti-AI grid
- 2The child’s name, in the pixels
- 3Phone screenshot: in testing
Published October 20, 2026 · 7 min read
1A watermark designed against AI
The anti-AI grid protects by default the previews that carry no studio watermark, and sits over yours if you ask for it. The Prisme style, optional and still experimental, adds colour, crosses the face, changes with every photo and states your rights in plain words.
The anti-AI grid — a classic grid — is on by default on the previews that carry no studio watermark, at the intensity you choose (8 to 30 %); you can also choose to lay it over your logo. The Prisme style, optional and still experimental, adds a field of colour, opaque dashed ribbons that also cross the face, a rights notice woven into the pattern and a slim bilingual copyright band; the pattern is different for every photo, and the rights are also written into your photos’ metadata. We say it as it is: no visible watermark stops someone determined. Prisme aims to make removal slower, costlier and visibly worse, and it says who owns the photo; its real effect is still to be measured.
Where to find it: Settings → Watermarks
2Your logo, as text or as a mosaic
A text watermark in your words, or your logo repeated over the whole photo — with the face kept clear.
You build a library of watermarks: a text (its wording, size and rotation) or a PNG or WebP image, centred or repeated. The mosaic layout, offered on request, repeats small logos with gaps, keeps the face clear and places a larger logo in the centre. A default watermark applies to all your sessions; each session can pick another.
Where to find it: Settings → Watermarks
3The child’s name, in the proof
A proof that travels carries the name of the family it was shown to. You choose the fields; we draw them into the pixels.
Option by option, you decide what appears: first name, last name, group, grade, student number, contract name — the address and phone ask for one more confirmation. The line is drawn into previews and thumbnails, never into metadata, and only on photos attributed to a single child: never on a group photo, a parent upload, a cut-out or a shared gallery.
Where to find it: Settings → Watermarks → Student info
4Applied to your proofs, kept up to date
Gallery, cart, emails, lab review: the same protected proof. Change your watermark and “Apply” brings your photos up to date.
Previews are capped at 1200 px and thumbnails at 800 px, both watermarked — enough to choose, and a reduced resolution that, with the watermark, takes the point out of printing. An “Apply” button redraws only the children’s photos that are out of date, with a time estimate while it runs (group photos and derived renders follow their own rules); an automatic repair catches, as later processing runs, any that were missed. An email thumbnail is bound to the photo’s watermark: once the photo is redrawn, the old link leads nowhere. Removing all protection asks for an explicit confirmation, recorded in the audit log. Purchased files and prints are your untouched originals, without watermark.
Where to find it: Session → Store → Watermark
5Signed links that expire, views that are logged
A signed preview link lives five minutes, the enlarged preview sixty seconds, and every gallery view is recorded.
Signed links are short-lived, behind the parent’s session, a check of their rights and a rate limit; copies served by our edge cache are released only after the parent’s session is verified, on every request. Group photos never go through that cache; only watermarked copies ever enter it, never an original. In the gallery, right-click, drag and the phone’s long-press menu are disabled — a brake, not a wall — and the parent reads that “preview images are watermarked and access is logged”.
Where to find it: Settings → Audit log
6And phone screenshots? What we are testing.
No web page can prevent a screenshot. Phones, however, know how to protect a video. We are testing serving the enlarged preview through that path.
The principle: the watermarked preview is packaged as a single-frame encrypted video and displayed through the phone’s protected circuit — the one already used for rented films. On iPhone and iPad, that is the content protection built into Apple devices: by Apple’s documentation it blacks out screen recordings and mirroring to another screen; the still screenshot is exactly what we are measuring. On Android, it is the path secured by the phone’s chip: on devices that offer it, we are testing whether the capture comes out black.
What it does not do, said plainly: it does not stop a second phone from photographing the screen — the watermark stays the defence; computers are not covered; some devices and browsers lack that circuit and will see today’s image, which remains the fallback. Where we stand: the lab is built, tests on real devices happen this fall, and if the results are good the protection will be offered studio by studio.
iPhone and iPad
The content protection built into Apple devices, the one rented films use. Documented to black out screen recordings; the still screenshot is under test.
Android
The video path secured by the phone’s chip. We are testing whether, on devices that offer it, the capture comes out black; the others keep today’s image.
The limits
A second phone can photograph the screen. Computers are not covered. The watermark remains the real defence, everywhere.
7Before you choose a platform, ask these questions
Print the list and tick what your current platform already offers. Here are our answers.
| The question | KebecPhoto | Your current platform |
|---|---|---|
| Do previews carry a watermark designed against AI tools? | Yes: anti-AI grid by default (can sit over your logo), the Prisme style (experimental) as an option with a different pattern for every photo. | |
| Your logo, as text or image, repeated over the photo? | Yes: text or image, centred or repeated; mosaic on request. | |
| Can the child’s name be drawn into the proof? | Yes, field by field, in the pixels only, on single-child photos. | |
| Are previews limited in size? | Yes: 1200 px, thumbnails 800 px, both watermarked. | |
| Do preview links expire? | Yes, the signed links: five minutes; sixty seconds for the enlarged preview. Our cache requires the parent’s session on every request. | |
| Are gallery views logged? | Yes, and the parent is told so. | |
| Does changing the watermark update existing photos? | Yes: “Apply” redraws the children’s photos that are out of date; an automatic repair catches the rest as later processing runs. | |
| Are phone screenshots blocked? | In testing: the phones’ video protection (device tests this fall); until then, the watermark is the defence. | |
| Not offered yet | Phone screenshot blocking in production, protection on computers, screenshot detection, blurring on tab switch. | |
8Answers before you begin
Is the watermark on purchased files?
No. Purchased digital files and prints are your originals, without watermark or grid. Only previews and thumbnails are protected.
If I change my watermark, do my photos already online follow?
Yes. “Apply” redraws the children’s photos that are out of date, with a time estimate while it runs, and an automatic repair catches, as later processing runs, any that were missed. Once a photo is redrawn, the email thumbnail sent with its old watermark stops displaying.
Can I remove all protection?
Yes, after an explicit confirmation; the action is recorded in your studio’s audit log.
Does it really prevent screenshots?
Not today: no web page can. What we are testing is the phones’ video protection, which should black out the capture on devices that offer it — that is exactly what we are measuring. A second phone will always be able to photograph the screen — which is why the watermark remains the real defence.
Proofs that make people think twice.
Create your account, choose your watermark, turn on the anti-AI grid: your previews are protected before your first session.