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Apr 14, 2004
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I have a photoshop file someone sent me with 5 pics that are vignettes saved as a gray scale format with a black background. I would like to know what kind of file I need to save it as so I can convert the background to a pantone color I can separate from Quark. Any suggestion’s how to do this? I won’t to end up with a black with the pics on it and a pantone color background plate.
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Apr 14, 2004
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:14:15 GMT, PrePress
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I have a photoshop file someone sent me with 5 pics that are vignettes saved as a gray scale format with a black background. I would like to know what kind of file I need to save it as so I can convert the background to a pantone color I can separate from Quark. Any suggestion’s how to do this? I won’t to end up with a black with the pics on it and a pantone color background plate.

There are a bunch of ways to do that.

One would be to create clipping paths around the photos. Place in Quark and then make a square/rectangle object in Quark that is the PMS color you want.

I’m more familiar with InDesign, where you can also select the tif and then change the background color directly. I thought Quark could do that.

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