Preserved Topic: Transparent backgrounds

In Photoshop, when I create a clipping path by choosing Help - Create Transparent Image and then call it into Quark it shows up as a Postscript picture, is there anyway I can stop this from happening. Or has anyone got any better ideas of taking a solid background of an image and keeping the background transparent without clipping round the image manually.

As far as I know, the only way to get transparency in Quark is with a clipping path.

I've never used the "help" wizard, so I can't respond to how it saves, and that's probably why I'm not sure what you mean by a "postscript picture"; and I'm not a Quark whiz either, so I'm not totally conversant in Quark. I always create the path; go to the fly-out menu at the top right of the path palette, select clipping path and specify which path to use as the clipping path (if there are more than one), and then save the file in a format that supports that stuff: tiff, eps, dcs ...

Does that help?

http://www.idignet.com/cgi-bin/photoshopcentral/psforum.cgi?read=4626

Try this thread over at idignets message board... I think this might at least shed some light on your problem. From what you are saying it sounds like it might be a PS6 problem...

hope that helps

~Vp~

[This message has been edited by vogonpoet (edited 02-06-2001).]

News Flash: Thanks to a list serve I subscribe to, I've recently gotten new information that relates a bit to this.

I am not a Quark user (my customers are - I don't do page layout or graphic design), and I haven't fully adopted PS 6 into my day to day, so this was news to me.

Evidently, Quark 4.11 does not recognize a clipping path embedded in a TIFF created in PS 6. It WILL recognize the path in an EPS or DCS file created in PS6. This is for transparency only - it will not be able to use the path for runaround regardless of file format.

Evidently a patch is expected from Quark to rectify this. In the meantime, there is some ugly muttering because, guess what? Adobe's InDesign (billed by Adobe as the "Quark-killer") DOES recognize these clipping paths correctly. Ain't that a wonderment? Jeez, can you imagine that?

Just thought Rachael and others should know.

yup..thast similar to what I heard to Steve.. what I heard is Adobe pushed ahead with this change in PS6 and are kinda pushing other progs i.e. Quark .. to upgrade or 'come to the party ' so to speak.. interesting huh?

~Vp~