How to Create and Insert a Watermark Using the Google Drawings Site

Step 1: Open the Google Drawing site in your web browser, and Open a new drawing page

Open https://docs.google.com/drawings in your web browser. This opens the ‘Google Drawing’ webpage with a new blank drawing page.

Step 2: Go to ‘Insert’ and Click on ‘Word art’

Here we can insert text or shapes or draw anything as in the drawing tool of Google Docs. Let us insert a text as a watermark in Google Drawings.

In the menu bar of Google Drawings, click ‘Insert’. A dropdown opens. Click ‘Word art’ in it.

Step 3: Type the text in the text bar and press ‘Enter’

A text box appears on the top. Type the text you want to add as a watermark and press ‘Enter’.

Here we have typed ‘GFG’, and press the ‘Enter’ key.

Now the word art is added to the drawing.

Step 4: Go to Fill Color Icon and Choose the Color of the Watermark

Change the color of the word art by clicking the ‘Fill color’ icon at the toolbar, and choosing any color from it.

Here we have set as green color.

Step 5: Click the ‘Format options’ button in the toolbar

Click the ‘Format options’ button at the rightmost corner of the toolbar to make more formatting to the word art. A side panel opens from the right side of the page.

Step 6: Click ‘Size & rotation’ in the side panel to change the size and angle of this word art

Click ‘Size & rotation’ in the side panel to change the size of this word art. The word art can also be flipped or rotated to some angle of your choice.

The angle of the word art has changed now.

Step 7: Set the name for this drawing file

This drawing file gets saved to Google Drive automatically. By default, the name is ‘Untitled document’. Click on it, and type any name of your choice.

Here we are saving it as ‘myWatermark’.

Step 8: Open Google Docs in your web browser, and open the document to add a watermark

Now open Google Docs in your web browser, and open the document in which the watermark is to be added.

Step 9: Go to the ‘Insert’ Tab, Select Drawing, and Choose From Device

In the menu bar, click ‘Insert’ -> ‘Drawing’ -> ‘From Drive’. This fetches the drawings saved in Google Drive.

Step 10: Select the drawing and click the ‘Select’ button

A panel opens up with all your latest drawings created using ‘Google Drawings’. Click on the recent drawing you created, and click the ‘Select’ button at the bottom of the panel.

Step 11: Click the ‘Insert’ button in the popup displaying

Another popup appears. Click the ‘Insert’ button in it. The drawing from Google Drawings gets added to the document.

Step 12: Click the ‘Behind the text’ icon under the drawing

A list of image options appears under it. Click the ‘Behind the text’ icon under the drawing to move the drawing back to the page content.

Now the drawing is moved behind the text of the page.

Step 13: Drag the drawing to the center of the page to appear as a watermark

We can adjust the position of the drawing to the center of the page to make it appear as a watermark.

Step 14: Preview Document

Drawings created from Google Drawings are added as a watermark successfully in Google Docs.

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