Can't do transparencies in Freehand 9?

[amakeler]

Hi all,

I am trying to import a circular image with the a transparent background.
..PNG, .GIF, whatever.

Freehand 9 shows the opaque background. I can do this in Corel Draw 9.

Then I read in the Freehand 9 User's Guide that Freehand can't import Alpha
channels, which is what contains the transparencies, as far as I understand.

If so then what good is Freehand 9 ...?

avraham.

[Wes Rand]

amakeler wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to import a circular image with the a transparent
> background. .PNG, .GIF, whatever.
>
> Freehand 9 shows the opaque background. I can do this in Corel Draw
> 9.
>
> Then I read in the Freehand 9 User's Guide that Freehand can't import
> Alpha channels, which is what contains the transparencies, as far as
> I understand.
>
> If so then what good is Freehand 9 ...?
>
> avraham.
>
>

No, no alpha channels in Freehand 9 (they do work in Freehand MX.) You
can make a clipping path in Photoshop that will trim the image in
Freehand. Or you can draw a clipping path in Freehand and paste the
bitmap inside of that.

[IOP_jamie]

you can use transparancy in a mannor - with a Grayscale bitmap image, import as
normal and then on the object pallet you get a transparancy check box - tick it
- now you notice it becomes a B/W image no shades of gray hear! you can change
the colour of the black part of the Bitmap image by now regarding it as an
object with a fill so you could set the black parts of a bitmap to be a pantone
spot or simmilar - also finaly there is a cut off slider if you like which
alows adjustment over what tones in the gray image are to be transparant and
what are to be coloured.....