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mg_culture
09-05-2006, 05:36 PM
Hi everyone, (URGENT)
i have a problem in freehand. Because after i crop a picture in photoshop and bring it into freehand, the picture seen to have a white background after i did the croping over photoshop.. what can i do to have the picture after croping without the background in freehand? any kind soul can teach me?
i need to complete my stuff. VERY URGENT.. pls contact me tro this email mg_culture@hotmail.com or maybe leave your contact nu,ber for me to ask you guys. :(
reuber1
09-05-2006, 05:39 PM
What kind of picture is it? GIF? JPEG? BMP? TIFF?
mg_culture
09-05-2006, 05:40 PM
Is a jpeg :(
reuber1
09-05-2006, 05:42 PM
If you save it as a jpeg in photoshop, it will not save the transparent background I'm afraid. Do you still have the source file in Photoshop? Even if not, you can bring that jpeg in Photoshop and eliminate the background then, and save as a GIF. Freehand should still recognize the transparent background.
mg_culture
09-05-2006, 05:52 PM
so i need to do is after croping the picture i need to save in as gif file.. So i can have the picture with no background anymore.. will the pixel look bad in gif file?
reuber1
09-05-2006, 05:59 PM
Maybe, maybe not. It really depends on the image...if it's solid color (like a cartoon image or something) then it should be fine, but photograph quality images may suffer. There might be a better format to use if you're sending to print, something to preserve the transparency. Is this for print or web?
mg_culture
09-05-2006, 06:02 PM
it.a.image logo with fonts. By the way it is a voucher, sending in for printing. So there wont be any big porblem with that right?
reuber1
09-05-2006, 06:04 PM
I thought this was like for a web banner or something or some sort of web graphic (though it's in Freehand, but I have heard of weirder), that's why I recommended GIF.
Don't you have an illustrated EPS version of the logo? Without it, this could be problematic in terms of quality. Besides GIF, the only thing I can think of is making a very intricate clipping mask around the logo after you brought it into Freehand.
I would save it as a PNG, not a GIF, unless it's a solid-edged, solid color image. PNG has JPG-like continuous-tone compression, and has multiple levels of transparency, so you can have soft edges on the transparent edge.
*EDIT: Sorry, I missed the "logo" part. Hopefully, like Reuber says, you have an eps of it. What is the original format of the logo?
reuber1
09-05-2006, 06:13 PM
Yeah, duh, PNG. For print file. Gif for web.
mg_culture
09-05-2006, 06:24 PM
Thanks guys,
i think i will save it in tiff or PNG. :) thanks a million:) i quite new in design so i may need some advise from you guys in future.
where you guys from? Asia? im from Singapore..
Broacher
09-05-2006, 06:28 PM
Is the logo multi-coloured? Pure line, or does it contain gradients, tints? What size are you reproducing it? Commercial printing, right?
The trouble with any colour raster (other than a bitmap, or black and white that's been recoloured) is that it will have to be shoved through a postscript halftone screen. That's where edge detail suffers the most.
mg_culture
09-05-2006, 06:36 PM
woo i dont understand what you saying? sound abit too pro for me but i keen to learnt. it is a few logo i need to crop out for my voucher. my voucher is 210mm x 90mm. the logo size is about 20mm x 20mm only. so wont have that much problem for printing rite? can it be seen that the edge are not shape ? because the logos are in white color.
Broacher
09-05-2006, 06:38 PM
Sorry, forgot about the translation gap.
Are the logos coloured 'solidly'. That is, how many unique colors are present in the design?
mg_culture
09-05-2006, 06:42 PM
voucher is in pink color, fonts and the product icons and logos are in white color.
Thanks guys,
where you guys from? Asia? im from Singapore..
Most of the users here are from the US or the UK, but we do have users from around the world. I'm from Canada, personally.
reuber1
09-05-2006, 06:49 PM
From the United States myself.
Ned, you never know where you are.
mg_culture
09-05-2006, 06:55 PM
Haha, look like i the onli aisan guy around :) now it pretty late in Singapore. It 2:52am hahaha still pushing to finish my voucher. did you guys have any ideas i could get some sources of help to help me improve in the graphic design area. i relly need that :)
reuber1
09-05-2006, 06:57 PM
This place! :D
Haha, look like i the onli aisan guy around :)
Not so. I am Asian by descent.
now it pretty late in Singapore. It 2:52am hahaha still pushing to finish my voucher.
Lunch time here. I'm off!
Red Kittie Kat
09-05-2006, 07:27 PM
I'm off!
that we knew :D
sorry couldn't resist :p
Broacher
09-05-2006, 08:12 PM
Okay, I'm going to assume that when you say the logo is 'all white' that it is a solid line logo. Then I'd ask you how come you're working in raster in Photoshop, but let's assume the best.
If your logo is one colour, solid, and contains sufficient logos to be scaled to your destination size to achieve a fiinal resolution of 300 ppi or higher.... I'd really reccommend that you simply convert a copy to bitmap mode and save as a TIF. That way you can re-colour the logo to anything in AI or ID and it's self-masking. That is, the non-image areas will be transparent. Not only will you get better printed edges, you'll get smaller file sizes as well.
Hope that came across okay.