DOES ANYONE GET WHITE EDGES WHEN IMPORTING CLIPPING PATHS INTO QUARK/INDESIGN?

[paule]

DOES ANYONE GET WHITE EDGES WHEN IMPORTING CLIPPING PATHS INTO QUARK/INDESIGN AND OVERLAYING CLIPPING IMAGE OVER A COLOUR. HOW WHEN WORKING IN PHOTOSHOP THINGS LOOK SHARP AND WHEN IMPORTED INTO LAYOUR PROGRAMMES IMAGES SEEM PIXELATED?

[Patrick Shannon]

<hold hands over ears> Yikes, don't shout.

Yes, I know what you speak of. The trick is to color the background of the image in a similar color of the background of the layout document. So if you clipped out a woman from a photo that was going to be placed in a document with a green background, make a second layer in Photoshop (as a background), color that a similar green, then go about the usual clipping method and this should disguise it.

And if you're speaking of how images look in layout programs on screen, they're suppose to look more low-res, it would bog down the computer too much if they weren't (try to select 'High Quality' in InDesign and see what I mean). Print it out or make it into a PDF, that's the real test of quality.

Patrick Shannon

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[defjoe]

it's just the preview (sometimes) does it print ok?

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[greyghost]

Quark is low-res - everything will look pixelated, but will print out fine. The new quark has a hi-res plug in, but I think it would still slow everything down.

I have had rip problems with clipping paths before. What are you saving the clipped file as? If you save it as an EPS in Photoshop and bring it into Quark that way, you shouldn't have a problem. Also depends on how you are saving that path - try this route: Paths > Make Work path, save tolarance at 2.0.
then
Paths> Save Path (give name)
Paths > Clipping Path > leave the flatness at cursor.

If that's what you are already doing, then I need more info. Hope that helps. :)

when it comes to certain clients, remind yourself:
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

I'm an ARTIST, not a MAGICIAN!

[greyghost]

Oh - Gee Patrick - I immedately was thinking a BIG white shadow, like a rip error. But yeah, if the line is from your background color when you did the printing - do what he said!

when it comes to certain clients, remind yourself:
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

I'm an ARTIST, not a MAGICIAN!

[D-Frag]

yeah, also photoshop has this nifty little bugger called 'Matting' layer>matting>remove white matting, works great to get that extra little fuzz off of your images, but its probably a low res viewing thing.

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[Broacher]

Of course, with InDesign's native support of layered (and transparent) PSDs and TIFFs, a lot of the clipping path or background colour stuff is a non-issue.

[Patrick Shannon]

I still do things that way because I'm highly cautious of transparancy being translated by the RIP wrong. Sometimes some files won't come out as a true transparancy, but instead you faintly see the area (which is supposed to be transparent) a lighter color than the rest. Clipping paths have never let me down.

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[DeleteYourself]

And on a side note, I've found that ID handles straight up Illy files way better than Illy EPS's.