Working with Type in PhotoShop

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Jun 23, 2004
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Creating type in PhotoShop and bringing tiff file into Quark doc. . . .. the problem is the type look hatched and has a white background. I cannot make the type look smooth nor can I make the background transparent. Any help for this novice will be greatly appreciated. thank you so much
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Eric Gill
Jun 23, 2004
(loraco) wrote in news:60ca2ba0.0406231051.7da9bb12
@posting.google.com:

Creating type in PhotoShop and bringing tiff file into Quark doc. . . . the problem is the type look hatched and has a white background. I cannot make the type look smooth nor can I make the background transparent.

That’s right – you cannot.

Any help for this novice will be greatly appreciated.

Illustrator.

thank you so much

You bet.
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Duncan Allan
Jun 23, 2004
If you use EPS files then you can make a clipping path and that will give you transparency. Additionally create the type as paths and this too will make them independent of any type issues on your machine as well as being usable on any other without the appropriate type installed.

Duncan

"Eric Gill" wrote in message
(loraco) wrote in news:60ca2ba0.0406231051.7da9bb12
@posting.google.com:

Creating type in PhotoShop and bringing tiff file into Quark doc. . . . the problem is the type look hatched and has a white background. I cannot make the type look smooth nor can I make the background transparent.

That’s right – you cannot.

Any help for this novice will be greatly appreciated.

Illustrator.

thank you so much

You bet.
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tacitr
Jun 23, 2004
Creating type in PhotoShop and bringing tiff file into Quark doc. . . . the problem is the type look hatched and has a white background.

Correct.

Rule #1 of professional design:

Don’t. Set. Type. In. An. Image. Editing. Program.

Use Illustrator, not Photoshop, and bring your type into Quark as an Illustrator EPS.

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howldog
Jun 23, 2004
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:11:00 GMT, Eric Gill
wrote:

(loraco) wrote in news:60ca2ba0.0406231051.7da9bb12
@posting.google.com:

Creating type in PhotoShop and bringing tiff file into Quark doc. . . . the problem is the type look hatched and has a white background. I cannot make the type look smooth nor can I make the background transparent.

That’s right – you cannot.

Any help for this novice will be greatly appreciated.

Illustrator.

thank you so much

You bet.

LOL! yer cruel.

to the original poster, yes, what you are experiencing is correct. Quarks "preview" of placed images is the industry’s worst. However, it will print fine. Sometimes, in extreme cases, I’ve had to print the file to an inhouse postscript enabled printer, to make sure i had placed images correctly.
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howldog
Jun 23, 2004
On 23 Jun 2004 19:47:02 GMT, (Tacit) wrote:

Creating type in PhotoShop and bringing tiff file into Quark doc. . . . the problem is the type look hatched and has a white background.

Correct.

Rule #1 of professional design:

Don’t. Set. Type. In. An. Image. Editing. Program.

Use Illustrator, not Photoshop, and bring your type into Quark as an Illustrator EPS.

???? I set type in Photoshop 6 or 7 all the time. Headline type, never text… prints fine, especially saving file as an EPS with vector data retained.
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Odysseus
Jun 23, 2004
In article <cbcmi6$m5g$1$>,
"Duncan Allan" wrote:

If you use EPS files then you can make a clipping path and that will give you transparency. Additionally create the type as paths and this too will make them independent of any type issues on your machine as well as being usable on any other without the appropriate type installed.
If you’re not saving as a vector EPSF, it would be better to convert to a high-resolution bitmap — ideally with the same DPI as the final output device’s — and save as a TIFF. (If the type has already been flattened, i.e. rasterized, you’ll probably get better results from resetting it at the higher resolution.) That way you won’t get a fringe of halftone dots around the type (assuming that the greyscale version is antialiased) and QuarkXPress, like most layout programs, will treat it as transparent without any need for a clipping path or mask.

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tacitr
Jun 24, 2004
???? I set type in Photoshop 6 or 7 all the time. Headline type, never text… prints fine, especially saving file as an EPS with vector data retained.

Of course, you have poor typographic controls…and you can’t fill with a spot color…and it won’t trap…

Why? Why use Photoshop for text in the first place?

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xalinai_Two
Jun 24, 2004
On 24 Jun 2004 01:50:08 GMT, (Tacit) wrote:

???? I set type in Photoshop 6 or 7 all the time. Headline type, never text… prints fine, especially saving file as an EPS with vector data retained.

Of course, you have poor typographic controls…and you can’t fill with a spot color…and it won’t trap…

Why? Why use Photoshop for text in the first place?

1. People tend not to spend money for software.
2. People don’t want to learn another program.
3. People don’t know better

Even Corel Draw is better for typesetting than a (primarily) raster image editor.

Michael

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