Add watermark that overlays the images

Question

I want to put a draft watermark using the below script but the problem is that the watermark don't come over the images and I want it to come over it.

\usepackage{draftwatermark}
\SetWatermarkText{DRAFT}
\SetWatermarkScale{1}

Answer 1

The problem is that the draftwatermark places the material in the background, so other elements (for example, figures and listings) might cover the included material; to prevent this, instead of using the draftwatermark package, you can use the xwatermark package; the starred variant of \newwatermark places the material in the foreground which seems to be what you need. A little example:

First, with the unstarred variant (material on the background, so a figure will be placed on top of it):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[printwatermark]{xwatermark}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newwatermark[allpages,color=red!50,angle=45,scale=3,xpos=0,ypos=0]{DRAFT}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-2]
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=3cm]{example-image-a}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[1-2]
\end{document}

And now, with the starred variant (material on the foreground, so it will appear on top of figures):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[printwatermark]{xwatermark}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newwatermark*[allpages,color=red!50,angle=45,scale=3,xpos=0,ypos=0]{DRAFT}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-2]
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=3cm]{example-image-a}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[1-2]
\end{document}