Watermarking cropped images in Aperture

I've looked around and have found people having issues with watermarks but didn't seem to find my problem. My issues it that when I export a group of images in order to put a watermark on them, any images that have been cropped get a watermark that is sized to the master image dimensions and looks huge. I've tried both checking the "scale" option and not but the result is the same. Hopefully this is just a matter of a check box or two... any help is appreciated.
Thanks!

Select all the Images in a Project and while holding down the "Option" key run "Photos➞Generate Preview". ("Option" changes "Photos➞Update Preview" to "Photos➞Generate Preview").
Any change?

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