Best way/easiest way to Watermark using Aperture 3

I was just curious the easiest way to add a watermark to my pictures in Aperutre 3. I've used Pixelmator in the past , and was happy with it, but can't download the trial again. I was just curious if anyone knew an easy way to create the watermark (like on what program) and then transfer it on to my Aperture pictures. Any thoughts? Thank you

This has been discussed here in the past so searching for 'watermark' in the forum will turn up some useful info.
Briefly to create a watermark file you need to be able to produce either a psd file or a tiff with a program that supports transparency. Again a search of the web will turn up many suggestions. Some possibilities are Photoshop (expensive), Gimp (free) and I've even done it using Keynote which is part of iWorks.
Hope this helps.

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