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I have an image that I've edited in photoshop - I've removed the background around an object. Now I want to import just the object into omega, but the white box background comes along with the image. How do I get rid of that white box?
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I need to place the image object on top of another image....I should probably just do everything in photoshop, but the job was already started in omega.
I don't know what version of Omega you have, but in ours, what you want can't be done - it doesn't seem to recognize a transparency like that. Of course, a newer version might have fixed this?...
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You may need to unlock the "background layer" by double clicking on it and re-naming it.....this will give you a transparent background. If you don't do this you will still have a white background when you delete the parts of the image that you don't want. I don't know anything about Omega....
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you could export the Omega portion & combine it all in photoshop, if printing it all as CMYK would be acceptable, but otherwise, along the lines of Glenn's suggestion, I often make a "hole" in the vector components in Omega, & put the image in the back.
When you import an image like that into programs like Omega it will flatten the image giving you that white background.
If the rest of the artwork in your Omega file is just text or vector shapes you could assign your colors and combine them, and then save the file out as an AI file. Open that in illustrator and copy and paste the components into photoshop as pixels on individual layers. Then you can work with that transparent image.
I have really enjoy the work that you, Noella, and the entire Sign It team has produced over the years. Anyway. . .
If using Omega 3.x . . .
Inside PS:
Create a Working Path around the object(s)/image(s) (can also have other paths if desired, not just Working Path)
Save as a psd
Inside Omega:
Open/Import the psd file
Import Paths from Image dialog appears
» Check Import Working path (this one is the most critical of the three)
» Check Import saved paths
» Check Import clipping paths
Done; transparency is observed with full image integrity
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hey Bob; that was a really great tid bit of info. I was playing around with that in PS after reading your post and that will certainly come in handy.
I have really enjoy the work that you, Noella, and the entire Sign It team has produced over the years. Anyway. . . 
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