This paper surveys in recent advances in watermarking techniques in digital images. Digital watermarking is toinclude subliminal information about multimedia information to provide a security service or simply a labelingapplication. It's possible to recover the embedded message, if the information is some non-destructive attacks, it's malicious ornot. It's commercial application range from copyright protection to digital right management. This paper include Watermarking introduction, features of digital watermarking, types of watermarking, application of digital watermarking, watermarkingtechniques. In my major work describes a watermark embedding technique for images using discrete fractional Fourier transform.