Import PSD logo to Freehand MX with transparent background!

[darrel]

> Why does this happen Bob?

Who's Bob?

Anyways, create a clipping path in Photoshop and then export it as a CMYK
EPS file.

Alternatively, you could export it as a CMYK file of any kind and mask it
with a path inside of FH.

-Darrel

[Judy Arndt]

plug69 wrote:

> Hi - I'm trying to imnport a psd 7 - logo into Freehand MX, the logo has a
> transparent background and it is flattened onto one layer. The logo imports
> into Freeahand fine with transparent bg. if it is in RGB, but as soon as I
> change it to CMYK in PSD and then try to import it again, Freehand give me an
> error reading???

That's a strange one. When I import the CMYK PSD file into FHMX it has what
appears to be an inverted transparency mask or alpha channel. What should be
transparent is now opaque white. What should be colored artwork is
transparent! Feathered areas are the correct, medium blue color.

No error message here when I imported it here.

Judy Arndt

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FHMX, G4, Mac OS 10.2.6
Photoshop 7

[Danny Whitehead]

I hope Bob doesn't mind me answering this one for him ;-)

I'm pretty sure (corrections welcome) that the ability to import
transparent PSDs etc into FHMX is part of its new 'raster effects'
capablities. These are all RGB-based. Even if it weren't for this bug,
any imported transparent CMYK image (along with any art that it
'interacted' with) would be converted to RGB and back to CMYK (by FH's
somewhat archaic colour management settings) at print time. This is why
the use of these effects for high-quality print work is not really
reccomended. If you really have to use them, there's no point in
converting the logos to CMYK in Photoshop. That nice conversion you did
in PS will be hosed by FH's crappy raster effects anyway.

> what where the programmers thinking??

That Freehand is a web application, and nobody uses it for print work
anymore. Dumb, huh?


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Danny

[plug69 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

mmm- yeah I think this is echoed throughout the print designing industry. Hope the FHD developers actually read these threads!