Photoshop help, please!

[everymansaved 0]

Hey everyone, I'm trying to create an action to put my signature at the bottom corner of my photos in photoshop so I can do them in batches. I've learned how to create an action, and how to do it with text already. I've also imported the signature, made the right parts of it transparent, and figured out how to get it on the picture, but I can't seem to get it to work within an action. The method I use to place the signature on the picture manually is as follows:
1) Open both the picture I'm wanting to mark and the image file for the signature.
2) Resize both image windows so I can see them both.
3) When the signature image is selected, drag it from it's image list onto the canvas of the picture.
4) Go back to the picture and move it to the bottom corner.

This doesn't want to work as an action because it relies on another image being open. Even if I have the signature image open in the background, it just imports a blank rectangle in the size and shape of the signature file onto the picture. Can I make the signature image some sort of permanent image within photoshop so it doesn't have trouble knowning what it's suposed to import? Thanks folks!

Edited to add: A sample of the final result for a reference.

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[pilotdave 0]

Use File -> Place to bring in the signature.

Then use Select -> All Layers

Then Layer -> align layers to selection -> bottom edges

Repeat above step for right edges.

Place will put the signature in the center. Then the next steps align it with the bottom right corner. Just record it as an action and you're done.

Dave

[everymansaved 0]

Thanks Dave, it worked perfectly!

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[futuredivot 0]

Now, how can I remove his signature from the photos so that I can steal them and use his images to promote my own rip-off booking agency?

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[everymansaved 0]

you sly bastard!

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[PhreeZone 20]

You know of a way to automate the "Save for Web" so it doesn't keep promting for the jpeg compression level?

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[skydiver30960 0]

The reason you're having trouble is that you aren't using Photoshop for it's God-given purpose: doing stuff like putting insanely large boobies on a skinny chick or putting somebody's ex-wife's face on top of a 90 year-old-woman's body.

Stick to such appropriate tasks and I'm sure you'll find the program will run without a hitch!

Elvisio "at least it seems like that's all it's used for" Rodriguez

[pilotdave 0]

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You know of a way to automate the "Save for Web" so it doesn't keep promting for the jpeg compression level?

No, but i'm really good at google so here's what i found out...

Just include a "save as" in the action. Set the jpeg compression. The filename you choose shouldn't matter... the Batch process will override it. Seems to work when you select "override actionsave as commands" in the batch.

Dave