Exporting Watermark in Aperture 2.1

I am exporting pictures as a jpg at level 12 quality. The pictures have been cropped as 4 x 6" size images. I have created a watermark file in photoshop and saved as a psd file. When I export the 4 images the watermark is a different size on each of the 4 images. I have also tried clicking the scale watermark checkbox and all have a different size watermark. Any suggestions. Thanks

juiceejuice wrote:
Does anyone know how to create a watermark using aperture 2.1.1? I know how to select it when exporting the picture, but I don't know how to create an actual watermark. thanks.
I had good success using the tutorial here:
http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/05/high-quality-watermarks-with-aperture/
Cheers.
PJP

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