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Funkboat Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 4	Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 9:24 am    Post subject: Placing an image with a clipping path Hi, I'm new here, and was wondering if it is possible to place an image with a clipping path into an existing powercadd drawing. I've gone and enhanced some renderings in photoshop and wanted to bring them into my drawing. thanks for the help
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Rob C Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 531 Location: Southern Connecticut	Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 8:51 pm    Post subject: Re: Placing an image with a clipping path Funkboat wrote: Hi, I'm new here, and was wondering if it is possible to place an image with a clipping path into an existing powercadd drawing. I've gone and enhanced some renderings in photoshop and wanted to bring them into my drawing. I don't really know, I haven't tried it. You could always do a crop in Photoshop before bringing it to PC. Save it out as a copy if you don't want to throw the cropped information away in the original file. BTW, I believe for the best color reproduction you should convert the color profile and save out a copy anyway. To do this in Photoshop go: Image>Mode>Convert to profile... The source comes up as your working color space by default, and for the destination, choose whatever profile you have selected in your monitors preference pane. Since PC is not Colorsync savy like PS, the color space you are working in in PC is your monitor's color space. Rob Profile to profile dialog with monitor profile as destination    Filesize:  37.22 KB  Filename:  Profile-to-profile-dialog.jpg  Viewed:  457 Time(s)
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Funkboat Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 4	Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:40 pm    Post subject: Re: Clipping Paths Thanks for the response, however, I know that Powercadd is unable to bring photoshop files in. The problem is that any transparencies built into the file are converted into a white background, which unfortunately obscure all layers below the image. I was curious if there was a way to bring an image with a predefined clipping path, similar to what i am able to do with most layout programs, so that the image brought in appears already "cut out" As far as colour profiles are concerned, I'm not to concerned about photoshops ICC colour profiles as the file is to be output on our plotter in the office, so that level of colour correction isn't really needed. - If any one has a solution to this problem, it would be much appreciated. I've since learned that this can sort of be achieved by bringing in an image and then using the convert to bitmap option, but this just eliminates the white in the image and is quite coarse.
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Matt Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 350 Location: Sterling, Virginia	Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:48 pm    Post subject: if you scale the image up considerably before converting to a bitmap, you can resize the course -- but large -- bitmap back down and it will give you the results you want. the bitmap conversion results in 72dpi stuff, so if you want 600 dpi stuff you have to enlarge it by 600/72 before converting and then reduce it by 72/600.
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JohnMorse Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 291 Location: Birmingham, AL	Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 3:33 pm    Post subject: In other words. "No, not really. But maybe there should be."
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