Clipping path in photoshop 7

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Oct 23, 2003
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HI,

I have a small graphic that I"m going to transfer to quark, but I need it to have transparant backround so it can properly overlap another graphic. What’s the best way to do this and what format should it be exported in. It ultimately is just going to be one spot color. I’ve been fooling around with paths and trying to save it as tiff, but when I bring it into quark it’s just a faint outline of the graphic. THanks for any help

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Eric Gill
Oct 23, 2003
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HI,

I have a small graphic that I"m going to transfer to quark, but I need it to have transparant backround so it can properly overlap another graphic.

‘kay. Is this line art or not? (i.e., 1-bit and not grayscale of color?)

What’s the best way to do this and what format should it be exported in. It ultimately is just going to be one spot color. I’ve been fooling around with paths and trying to save it as tiff, but when I bring it into quark it’s just a faint outline of the graphic.

Quark is supposed to support clipping paths in Tiff, but in my experience it’s a crap shoot as to whether it actually works. EPS is completely reliable, but you give up the convenience of being able to colorize a grayscale or 1-bit graphic in QXP, leaving you at the mercy of Photoshop’s poor spot color support.

Boils down to: if you absolutely have to use clipping paths and spots together, you’re limited to one format: DCS (subset of EPS), and you have to define your spots in Photoshop and QXP exactly the same.

This would be a great time to consider switching to InDesign.

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