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1. Re: IL or FW for transparent background objects?
Wade_Zimmerman Feb 26, 2011 5:46 PM (in response to TCarp)What options did you use when you placed the Photoshop files.
You could always select the photoshop object and go to the transparency panel and reduce the transparency and or change the blending mode.
If you mean the silhouette is transparent outside of the silhouetted area then make certain that the Photoshop file is a transparent layer in photoshop and then
place it as and Illustrator Object and not a flattened image.
In both cases the file placed in Illustrator has to be a transparent Photoshop file no back ground layer.
You can clip it in Illustrator or Photoshop if it is a flatten or nn transparent photoshop file.
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2. Re: IL or FW for transparent background objects?
Wade_Zimmerman Feb 26, 2011 5:53 PM (in response to Wade_Zimmerman) -
3. Re: IL or FW for transparent background objects?
TCarp Feb 27, 2011 7:45 AM (in response to Wade_Zimmerman)Wade, thanks for taking the time here.
Before you do any more work...
I did some testing and am slowly understanding at least enough to handle my situation. I place the psd files (the silouettes) in ai and then do final sizing (always smaller). I noticed that one of the placed images was transparent and the other was not. I went back to PS to find differences. It turns out one was Indexed and the other RGB 8. I don't understand what these terms mean but I did read somewhere that the mode made a difference regarding transparancy.
I changed the mode of the file that didn't bring over transparency to RGB 8 and bingo! The method of building the silouette in PS and then placing it in AI is very simple and straight forward.
I need to do some reading on these modes but for now I have a process.
Thanks again
Tom







