Why won't Aperture add my watermark to images at export?

Might it be too small? What size are your JPG's? You are exporting at original size, and your watermark is only 50 pixels in one dimension (unless that's a typo).

Try exporting to an image size of 600 x 600, and set opacity to 100%. This should confirm whether your watermark is being used.

Then you can trouble-shoot either:

. the watermark is not being used, or

. the watermark is not giving me the result I expected.

If you're often using 1024x1024 you can create your watermark in a canvas that's already that size, place it where you want and just leave the rest of the image transparent. It's a good way to keep things consistent and avoid Aperture's sometimes odd scaling and placement.

Just a thought.

You're welcome. Glad I guessed well.

Once I settled on a watermark I was comfortable using, I created versions at a range of regularly used sizes: 320, 640, and 1024. I assign the watermark and the export size to an Export Preset, and just select the Preset I want. My 1024 watermark works on images fit within a 1920 square. That's the biggest export I watermark.

It's a bit of set-up time after one has settled on a watermark to make different size versions, but -- as Jade Leary points out -- its the best way to use watermarks using Aperture alone (it is what is recommended in the User Manual).

I actually often combine my watermarked images with borders that have text on them. I do this with Border FX -- a free plug-in all of whose tools are worth getting to know. There is a watermark -- unobtrusive, the way I like it -- on the lower-left of this image superimposed on the image (not really visible at this resolution -- click and you can see it in the larger version), in addition to the title and date and name in the border.

Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger