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[Birbo]

Trying to extract an image of two guys from one background in Photoshop and place them in front of another using Quark to lay it out. Got them extracted pretty well, but when I put them in front of the other background in Quark, I keep getting a thin white outline around them. Tried messing with the clipping/runaround options in Quark, but to no avail. I've used stock photography before that has alpha channels around the images and that always works great, but I can't seem to get that to work properly around my image in Photoshop. Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[Ecrofirt]

Now, I've never used this Quark program, but you're sure you've cut the guys out well in photoshop?

If you're not 100%, you can upload the pic, and I'll try to cut them out for you, as well.

 

[Outcast2004]

Birbo.

Ok first thing. You will get a fine white line using a clipping path. so ues them sparingly.

The best solution for what you are trying to do would be to layer mask the image out. you get a fine extraction and it doesn't look so clipped out. It's a softer clip. Save this image as an EPS file to maintain transparancy.

As for Quark runaround, don't use it. Same with Quark clipping paths. Quark clipping paths are awful and usually aren't kept when you go to print the file. They jump around quite a bit.

If you really want you could send me the pic and I could give you one masked out properly and with no white line gap.

I deal with this stuff everyday with my company, so I assure I know what I'm doing.

Any questions, feel free to PM me and I can walk you through it
Jason Christner
FTP/IS/Graphic Desgin
Harmon Media Group
Canton, OH office.

EDIT: I do need more information too. What version of Quark (this makes a big difference. Quark 6 is SHIT.) you are using. Ayway, my PM box is open. Don't be afraid to ask for help.

 

[xsarien]

You saved them as a transparent .GIF, right? Make sure you don't have a background color selected when you do that, I bet you have it set to white.

 

[Outcast2004]

Sarien,
Certain versions of Quark don't recognize Gif files. So it's all going to depends on what he's using.

To be safe he's probably better off using an EPS. It's a universal format and he shouldn't have any problems.

 

[Birbo]

PM sent.

I'm using Quark 5.5. My image is pretty well cut out of its background and I do have a transparent background set on it and saved as an eps.

Think the problem may be more with Quark. Made a clipping path around the image in Photoshop, but still get the thin white line around it in Quark.

 

[Outcast2004]

I think we can close this. I'll be consulting with Birbo through PM....