It's more inconvenience than necessary...

Watermarks appear to be working fine for 'normal' exports, so export direct from Aperture to the Finder using the export preset that you set up. Then drag the images into the email or hit the attach button and navigate to the folder. No need to involve Photoshop at all.

Ian

Thanks Ian - I hadn't tried it that way.

Happy to help. ;-)

It may work for Ian, but I just had a chance to test it and even using a regular export, the watermark feature in Aperture is not working for me. Perhaps there's a difference in which file formats, sizes or styles of watermarks are affected.

Curiouser and curiouser. I can replicate the email function not adding watermarks, but exporting regular Versions (both from RAW & JPEG) to JPEG with a watermark is working fine for me.

Ian

It will work with regular exports if you select an export size option for which you previously set a watermark file in Preferences > Export. So, if you only attached a watermark file to 'Email Medium-JPEG' in Preferences, then you will only get the watermark added if you select 'Email Medium-JPEG' in File > Export > Versions....

Sean, thank you for solving the mystery! I indeed was testing by creating a new export with watermark and it didn't work.

The link to the earlier article is: http://blogs.oreilly.com/aperture/2007/07/creating-a-dimensional-waterma.html . Ellen, you may want to correct it in your entry as you've linked instead to the MovableType administrative back-end instead.

Thanks Erik, I appreciate you catching that and including the link. It's been corrected in the blog.

Ellen

There is another bug with watermarks in that the scale feature does not work properly if you have heavily cropped an image. A watermark that scales correctly, with the scale feature checked, for exporting the whole image seems to give a watermark that is too big if it has been substantially cropped during editing prior to export. This certainly deserves correcting soon I should think.

I want to use aperture to put up a stock photo site. Using my current aperture albums (which are nicely divided into stock subjects). I have not upgraded to version 2 yet.

I want to know if you can add watermarks automatically to all images that are included in a web gallery?

This is an important feature - as designers like to download samples from stock sites and use them in mock ups to see if the shot works. Hence, having a download enabled file with a watermark on it is a must.

Does Aperture 2 allow this?

Thanks,

I created a water mark and set it in the image. Just I keep getting a white background when I created it with a transparent. Any way to create just a regular water mark without photoshop?

Rob, the issue is you need to create the watermark with a program that allows you to save the background for the watermark as transparency (a TIFF with transparency). One solution is to download a free trial version of Photoshop and use it to create the watermarks.

Hi. Is this watermark invisible variety, like in Photoshop? How do I get Aperture to add a watermark to multiple files with my name visible in the right-bottom of each picture in a font of my choosing? Thanks for any pointers. I'm going crazy trying to get this simple feature, as it exists in Lightroom. (This blog does not have a "Notify me" feature for comment posts, so please if anyone knows, could you CC me at erick (dot) papa (at) gmail (dot) com. Thanks!)

The watermark is not invisible - it puts whatever text wherever you choose. If you use transparency then only the text will appear. If you don't use transparency then you'll see a rectangle with the text over the image. I think the blog describes how to create the watermark. You apply it in Aperture on multiple images during Export by checking the option to add a watermark (and specifying the file) in the Export options popup.