How to Make a Watermark in "Aperture"
Your images are susceptible to theft when they are published on a public site, as anyone can save the image and use it as his own without your permission. As a safeguard, Aperture 3 provides image watermarking to protect your original images from unethical use. An embedded watermark appears in the image, and cannot be disabled by anyone except for the creator of the watermark for effective theft prevention. A watermark is an image that typically mentions your name or website, which is then imported into Aperture for use in the image you wish to label as your own.
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Instructions
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Launch Aperture and click the Presets menu at the top of the application.
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Click "Web Export" in the Presets pull-down menu, and click the image you want to protect in the pop-up dialog box.
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Click the checkbox next to "Show Watermark" and click "Choose Image."
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Click the picture you want to set as your image's watermark in Aperture, and click "Choose."
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Click the Position drop-down menu to select the placement of the watermark.
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Click and drag the tab on "Opacity" to increase or decrease the watermark's transparency.
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Click "OK" to embed the watermark into the image.
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Tips & Warnings
Save your watermark image in Photoshop as a PSD file for high-quality watermarks in Aperture. Set the Photoshop image to a transparent background to prevent a noticeable border when embedding the watermark in the image.
