transparent background not transparent

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Jun 28, 2006
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I know what a lousy beginning photoshop question this is, but I’m getting frustrated so I’ll throw it out to the experts…

I made a transparent background on my image in photoshop. It’s a black line drawing filled with white, and surrounding it is the transparent checkerboard. So that part is good to go, but when I place the image in Pagemaker, it’s not transparent at all. The background is showing up as white.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Just please don’t call me an idiot.
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jaSPAMc
Jun 28, 2006
On 27 Jun 2006 18:26:05 -0700, "puzzlebean" found these unused words floating about:

I know what a lousy beginning photoshop question this is, but I’m getting frustrated so I’ll throw it out to the experts…
I made a transparent background on my image in photoshop. It’s a black line drawing filled with white, and surrounding it is the transparent checkerboard. So that part is good to go, but when I place the image in Pagemaker, it’s not transparent at all. The background is showing up as white.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Just please don’t call me an idiot.

AFAIK, transparency would only work IF saved as gif89.
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Waldo
Jun 28, 2006
Sir F. A. Rien wrote:
On 27 Jun 2006 18:26:05 -0700, "puzzlebean" found these unused words floating about:

I know what a lousy beginning photoshop question this is, but I’m getting frustrated so I’ll throw it out to the experts…
I made a transparent background on my image in photoshop. It’s a black line drawing filled with white, and surrounding it is the transparent checkerboard. So that part is good to go, but when I place the image in Pagemaker, it’s not transparent at all. The background is showing up as white.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Just please don’t call me an idiot.

AFAIK, transparency would only work IF saved as gif89.

Maybe the preview of Pagemaker does not show transparency. I don’t know Pagemaker, but InDesign handles transparency of PSD files correctly.

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Kielipuoli
Jun 28, 2006
puzzlebean wrote:
when I place the image
in Pagemaker, it’s not transparent at all.

Which file format are you using? Only PSD, TIFF, PNG and GIF support transparency.

I’ve never used PageMaker, but in InDesign you can also make a white background disappear by choosing Object > Clipping Path > Detect edges.
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edjh
Jun 28, 2006
puzzlebean wrote:
I know what a lousy beginning photoshop question this is, but I’m getting frustrated so I’ll throw it out to the experts…
I made a transparent background on my image in photoshop. It’s a black line drawing filled with white, and surrounding it is the transparent checkerboard. So that part is good to go, but when I place the image in Pagemaker, it’s not transparent at all. The background is showing up as white.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Just please don’t call me an idiot.
I don’t know if Pagemaker supports transparency of any kind, but why do you need it to be transparent? Can you incorporate whatever background you have in Pagemaker into the graphic itself?

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Tacit
Jun 28, 2006
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"puzzlebean" wrote:

I made a transparent background on my image in photoshop. It’s a black line drawing filled with white, and surrounding it is the transparent checkerboard. So that part is good to go, but when I place the image in Pagemaker, it’s not transparent at all. The background is showing up as white.

Yes, that is correct.

Pagemaker does not support transparency. You can not place a transparent image in Pagemaker and preserve the transparency.

The best that you can do in PageMaker is use a clipping path. Use the Pen tool to draw a path around the part of the image which should be opaque, save the path in the Paths palette, and in the Paths palette flyout menu set the path as a clipping path. Save the image as an EPS file and bring the EPS into PageMaker.

This kind of transparency is always hard-edged and is "all or nothing"–you can not have parts of the image be semi-transparent.

Of course, PageMaker is a dead product that was abandoned many years ago. Adobe InDesign, a modern page layout program that is still supported, allows you to place transparent TIFF and PSD files with no difficulty.

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