Watermarked photo workflow?

i have a bit of a goofy workflow that i am trying to improve on. advance apologies as i have not done any editing whatsoever in aperture as i am only currently using it to organize a database of images.
anyway, i /currently/ select a number of images that i want to watermark, create an album for these images, then i export the images to a folder on my desktop. then i size these to some convenient we format in Preview (usually 10" wide or 10" tall at 72 DPI). then i /delete/ the original images in this "project X watermark" album and i IMPORT these sized images into a new PROJECT. at this point the images are sized correct and i go ahead and EXPORT the project images to the desktop folder (after having deleted the original sized images in the folder on the desktop) and i select the color and location of the watermark.i bulk select the photos that i want watermarked in the various locations so i only do three of four exports at this point.
at this point i go ahead and i delete the imported sized images from this album and i IMPORT again the images from the desktop folder with the watermark.
then i go through the images on the desktop in Quick Look and if there are any out of place watermarks i redo the individual images in the manner described above.
so at this point i have images in a folder on my desktop with a watermark and i have them in a new PROJECT in aperture.
i assume this is going to be seen as insane but is there a better way to accomplish this without so many steps?
THANKS

Aperture is an Image organizer that stores raw material (digicam files of recorded light) and information (instructions on how to alter the recorded light files —  including {mentioned for its importance to you} adding a watermark).  Aperture should be thought of as an aggressively efficient way to _make_ share-able image-format files from the data you store in it.  It does not — when properly used — store the share-able image-format files you make.
That is, to me, the important conceptual distinction that, having missed, is sending you on circuitous routes of file-making and storing.  Aperture is like a factory that produces items from molds.  Keep the factory smoothly-running, and customize the molds to your needs, but don't clutter up the place with the items you make.  Remember that you can always — at very close to zero cost — make another — or another hundred thousand — items.
I found Aperture easier to understand and use once I insisted on specifying exactly what I meant by "image", "photo", and "file".
Aperture is a database of Images.  Those images are made — on the fly — by combining two files: the Original, and the text files of development instructions.  "Photo" should not (in spite of its use by the designers of Aperture) ever be used:  its definition is so indefinite its use leads to confusion and wasted time.
_If_ your overall work requires you to keep many share-able image-format files at hand, by all means do so.  But use a file-management program to store them.  Aperture is not a file-manager.  Finder is.  (I use Path Finder, which is more full-featured, but comes with some clumsiness.)
I recommend inShort for studying and refining process flow.  Refining process flow is not simple.  The issue you've posted about, nevertheless, is one of process flow.  (A word about inShort: brilliant, but almost completely opaque at first glance; persevere — it's intransigence is wise.)
HTH.
—Kirby.

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