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Snedley
Joined: 15 Sep 2005
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 Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:40 am Post subject: Extracting in 5.0 |
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Hi.
New to Photoshop and the forum.
Just bought version 5.0 to help design my cd cover.
need to extract some images from their background......just can't seem to do it. When i move the image over to Illustrator the white background goes with it. Please help. |
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cbadland
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:46 am Post subject: |
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What version of Illy do you have? |
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Snedley
Joined: 15 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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Version 8.0 |
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cbadland
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm. I can’t remember when Illy started supporting transparency in placed bitmap images. But try anyway:
Create your image with transparent areas in Photoshop and save as PSD file. In Illustrator go File>Place and browse to place your photoshop document.
Good luck. |
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Snedley
Joined: 15 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 1:16 pm Post subject: Transparent |
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I guess it's the transparent areas I'm having trouble with. That option isn't available for the background. |
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cbadland
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 1:35 pm Post subject: Re: Transparent |
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| Snedley wrote: | | I guess it's the transparent areas I'm having trouble with. That option isn't available for the background. |
You might have to do some research. Plenty of tutorials out there. But it's easy.
Here are the basics:
Open your image in Photoshop.
Double click on the Background Layer to make it a layer that have transparent pixels.
Use eraser tool, or select areas and delete, to make parts transparent.
Save as PSD.
In Illy File>Place file.
(and again, this may not place with transparency in your older versions.) |
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Jersey Hacker
Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Location: Jersey, Channel Islands, UK
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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Snedley
Joined: 15 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Cbadland
I'll try that tonight.
I bought the PS Bible for that version and I really don't mind digging but I'm under time pressure.......the person who was supposed to design this for me crapped out at the last minute so I bought the programs and am doing it myself. I do appreciate it and will probably be back for more help. I don't know much about Illustrator either. Do you think it's worth me upgrading to the newest PS? |
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cbadland
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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For this one project? No.
But Photoshop has certainly come a long way since 5.0. |
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cbadland
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Jersey Hacker wrote: | | Illy, lol i like it! |
I used to use "AI" but don't want to give Adobe engineers (as good as they are) that much credit. |
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