How to Place a Watermark Behind an Image in InDesign?

[Ana Blessed]

Hello, I am trying to to make a watermark on a page but the text that should be behind the watermarks is as an image format because I had to export it from PDF, Is there anyway of making this watermark appear behind the 'image' and show as a watermark?

InDesign 2025
See the examples in the Screenshot
Could anyone help me, please?

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[Robert at ID-Tasker]

You need to upload your screenshot again. 

[James Gifford—NitroPress · Accepted solution]

Again, your screenshot is corrupted or didn't load  — uploading it again may help.

The short answer, based on my best interpretation of your post, is "no" — you can't put anything behind an image an not have it blocked or masked, at least not without making the image partial opacity. Watermarks are by nature pretty much an overprint of whatever's on the page, intended to leave that faint "copyright" or anti-duplication mark across all content.

I'd create a document layer named, say, WATERMARK, and put your watermark text or image in it, then set the layer to some light opacity (25-33% or so, unless the watermark itself uses very thin, light strokes). That way, it will overprint all content on every page (at least, every page to which the watermark image is applied on the corresponding Parent page) and can easily be adjusted throughout the doc or turned on and off.

[Ana Blessed]

Thank you James
It solved my problem
Have a great day