Pattern overlay from PS to ImageReady

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Aug 18, 2004
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Hello all,

I’m working on web site that I’m designing in PS7, with the intent of slicing it up in Image Ready and building in Dreamweaver. One of my layers has a simple pattern overlay done in the Layer Effects window—just some faint horizontal gray and white thin lines, a bit like scan lines. When I jump over to Image Ready, the pattern looks all wrong: lines too dark, spaced incorrectly, etc. It’s not just the display, either—when I save that slice as a .GIF, the muddled version is what I get.

I notice when I double click the the layer effect in Image Ready’s layers pallette, I get an entirely different window than the one in PS, with its own presets. And while this window does allow "Other" patterns to be loaded, it won’t take .PAT files …. which, of course, is what my pattern is. They all seem to be AI files, of all things. It looks like IR is substituting its own pattern for the original, but it’s doing a poor job.

Anyone else ever run into this? Is there any way to maintain the original pattern, or get it to load in IR, or something? I’m more curious than anything…

Thanks,

Michael

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stupid_idiot
Aug 23, 2004
I would place a transparent layer under your pattern layer, link it, merge linked layer. then go off to ImageReady.

"M.Gagarin" <yeah, right> wrote in message
Hello all,

I’m working on web site that I’m designing in PS7, with the intent of slicing it up in Image Ready and building in Dreamweaver. One of my layers has a simple pattern overlay done in the Layer Effects window—just some faint horizontal gray and white thin lines, a bit like scan lines. When I jump over to Image Ready, the pattern looks all wrong: lines too dark, spaced incorrectly, etc. It’s not just the display, either—when I save that slice as a .GIF, the muddled version is what I get.
I notice when I double click the the layer effect in Image Ready’s layers pallette, I get an entirely different window than the one in PS, with its own presets. And while this window does allow "Other" patterns to be loaded, it won’t take .PAT files …. which, of course, is what my pattern is. They all seem to be AI files, of all things. It looks like IR is substituting its own pattern for the original, but it’s doing a poor job.
Anyone else ever run into this? Is there any way to maintain the original pattern, or get it to load in IR, or something? I’m more curious than anything…

Thanks,

Michael

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