import as text box?

[PrintDriver]

Is there any way to get a photoshop clipping path converted into a Quark text box?

[Satchel]

Oh boy... I would like to help PD, but Quark is not my strong point. Seems like you should be able to though?

I know this is a pointless post, sorry!

[Virgo Nightingale]

There isn't that I'm aware of (that certainly doesn't mean there isn't a way). I'm guessing you want text to fill a specific shape? Perhaps create a blank image with a reversed clipping path or alpha channel and place it into the Quark document (small and off to the side so the image doesn't interfere with the design), activate the runaround and clipping path for the picture box (un-check restrict to box) and place a text box beneath the 'picture'. I don't know if that would work, I've never tried it, but perhaps it's doable?? If that wasn't what you were trying to accomplish then just ignore me...:D

[benjo]

You can inverse your clipping path in Quark.

That probably doesn't help much right. I know PD I'm rusty bro.

[PrintDriver]

Ok, my explanation sucks. I was going around about instead of straight through.

I have a clipping path on a grayscale .tif photo in Photoshop.
I need to bring the image into Quark and activate the clipping path.
I need the background color to be red and the image color to be black (basically a duotone).
When I tell the background to be red, the whole image box fills, inside and outside of the clipping path to make a rectangle of color rather than staying inside the clipping path.

No it can't be a bitmap.
I'd rather not colorize it in Photoshop but may end up that way.

What I had intended to do was somehow get the clipping path in as a box shape. I don't want to redraw the rather involved clipping path as a box shape in Quack (have you tried their bezier box tool? Idiotic!).

Anyone have a technique? Please tell me it's just something stupid I'm forgetting...this little project is taking far longer than I anticipated.

Thanks.

[Kool]

Have you tried using the Quark clipping feature on your already clipped object

[PrintDriver]

'Detect edges' or something like that?
I thought that turned off the use of the clipping path but will check again in the morning.
The image doesn't lend itself well to Detect Edges but I may be able to modify it.
I don't always hate trying to recreate artwork in Hi-res that I didn't build, but this one's been a bugger.

[urstwile]

Hmm, I'm not sure exactly what you want to achieve, and I don't have Quark here at home, but basically, you want your image be inside the clipping path to be black, and the background outside to be red, correct? I think you need to make the picture box red, and then with the content selection tool, make the image area black. I could be misunderstanding what you're trying to do however. I can fiddle with it at work tomorrow a.m.

[PrintDriver]

Grr... I can't post the image to show you.
Let me see if I can find an example.

[PrintDriver]

I made an example with this <copyrighted> Photoshop Duck. Thought it suited the topic. ;)
The image on the left has the clipping path activated but the box is still filling red to make a rectangle.
The one on the right is duotoned in Photoshop (which, for specific reasons I don't want to do if I can avoid it) but is how I want it to look in Quark.

LOL. In the time it's taken me to write all this, I coulda traced the silly thing, even with Quack's lame bezier tool.

[benjo]

Why not use two boxes one in front with the duck and your colored box as the BG?

[PrintDriver]

Got it. Kool, if you'd said, 'fit box to clipping path'...

It's here:
Menu>Item>"Picture Box Shape from Path">"Fit Box to Clipping Path"
Found it by accident today. Handy feature.