Extraction vs. Clipping Path from PS to Quark…..

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Feb 21, 2004
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Hi,

I’m trying to bring an image into quark with a transparent background with no success. It’s been extracted and sits on the transparency in PS, however, when I save it as a TIFF (without flattening) image or an EPS, I still have the white background.

The image is such where I don’t want to use Quark’s clipping path for white areas because it would not be clean so I’m wondering how to go about this??

Thanks for any thoughts,

BD
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tacitr
Feb 21, 2004
I’m trying to bring an image into quark with a transparent background with no success. It’s been extracted and sits on the transparency in PS, however, when I save it as a TIFF (without flattening) image or an EPS, I still have the white background.

Correct.

The image is such where I don’t want to use Quark’s clipping path for white areas because it would not be clean so I’m wondering how to go about this??

The only way–the ONLY way–to get transparency in Quark is to use a clipping path. Quark does not support transparency any other way.

The best way to create a clipping path is to use the Pen tool in Photoshop–Quark’s own clipping function is crude.

If you want translucency, you can not place a translucent image in Quark. You must create the entire merge in Photoshop. Place the image on whatever background you are using in Photoshop, then bring the image and background together into Quark as a single file.

Hope that helps…

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Eric Gill
Feb 22, 2004
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Hi,

I’m trying to bring an image into quark with a transparent background with no success. It’s been extracted and sits on the transparency in PS, however, when I save it as a TIFF (without flattening) image or an EPS, I still have the white background.

The image is such where I don’t want to use Quark’s clipping path for white areas because it would not be clean so I’m wondering how to go about this??

Thanks for any thoughts,

What Tacit said, only I’d add to *never* use a Quark clipping path.

And to ditch QXP and move to InDesign at the earliest possible time, so all the workarounds to get transpanrency will be nothing more than a bad memory.

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