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I have a customer that I am doing a logo for. I am going to be edge printing this logo on signgold. The logo is a fire department maltise cross, the art that is going to be in the center is a logo in an oval shape. I have the artwork straight from a CD and it looks just fine, except.....there is a rectangular box that I can't get rid of! (it's white in Photoshop and clear in Omega) When I make the desired center piece too large, it blocks out the maltise cross. If I could just get rid of that pesky box, I would be a happy camper! I have tried everything I can think of.
I have Photoshop 5.02 and we are using Gerber Omega. I am not a photoshop gure by any stretch!
Any ideas or instructions?
Thanks!
-------------------- Mike Berry New England Posts: 534 | From: New England | Registered: Jan 2002
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Look in the Layers palette when that logo image is open. If there's only one layer there, and it's labeled "Background", doubleclick where it says "background" and that will bring up another dialog box asking for a new layer name. You can either accept the default "Layer0" name or enter a new one, it doesnt matter. Now you can erase the white background from around the image, but you must save the image as a Photoshop (PSD) file otherwise the white background will come back.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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Mike's right about how to get rid of it in Photoshop, but to get rid of it in Omega may be a different story. If you can print the whole job as process then create the final composite of cross art & oval logo in photoshop by doing what Mike said then bringing in the cross, putting on a layer behind the oval, getting each sized to each other, then flattening it to one layer & save as a .tif
If you want to print the cross as a spot color job, with just the oval logo as process then it is more tricky. The way I would do it is to have a oval shape in the center of your cross artwork & "combine" shapes to make the oval like a hole in the cross artwork. The oval "image" file would still come into Omega as a rectangle with white outside the logo but move this to the back & the oval shaped "hole" in the cross artwork will let it show through, masking out the white part. If your cross art has many layers, they will all need this hole in them.
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In Photoshop outline the oval with the Pen tool, once done save that path as Clipping Path. Save the file as an EPS file with the Clipping Path enabled. Place the file in the application that has Maltese cross and you are good.
-------------------- Eric Patzer A.S.A.P. Design Lafayette, CO epatzer@earthlink.net Posts: 208 | From: Lafayette, CO USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Eric's plan should do the trick. Another thing is masks, something i use alot in Illustrator when working with Photoshop files. It works much the same way as a clipping path....draw the shape that you want to be the mask, place it on top of the Photoshop image, select both of them and the choose "make mask" in the file menu.
I'm sure there's the equivelant to be found in Omega.
[ July 17, 2002, 09:37 AM: Message edited by: Don Coplen ]
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