what format?

Hi all

I have an image in photoshop 6 which I need to move to indesign or illustrator. I am finding it difficult as I need it in monotone (to mentain a pantone match) and so have tried saving it as TIFF and EPS but it keeps filling the transparent areas with white once I open it in Illustrator/indesign. Please help!!!

thanks

ocube

don't cross post... one post will do it.

Drag and drop --- copy paste. Illustrator and PS work well together. You can drag from one to the other, os just select the layer(s) you want.

tried that but it still places white over the transparent area.

i was thinking the other way. Illustrator to PS doesnt add a bg, its just that layer, it might have something to do with dragging a bitmap image to a vector program that forces you to "flatten" it. I will check later. Now note that if you are creating a "monotone" image in PS, then you will be creating a 4 color image that looks monotone. (if you are using cmyk) There is a special way to use channels that Utopian has mentioned where you can specify the colors on seperate channels. Then save it as a certain format to preserve that.

ie. if you save your image as .eps or a .tiff and you only want it to be 1 color, then it isnt 1 color, it's 4.

Dragging a PS image into Illustrator will definatly rasterize the image. Since it cant recognize it as a vector, it flattens it. It would be much easier to save all your images and lay them out in Indesign or Quark. Or bring your Illustrator files into PS. But its just not a smart plan trying to bring the PS file into Illustrator. Also, you have to careful you don't lose your colour profiles switching between platforms. I think if you bring the Illustrator image over to PS, you could lose your Pantone, it may just become a CMYK equivilant.

Here is what Utopian said:

"Speaking only VERY generally....

Your Spot Channel must be set up in your Channels Palette and you need to Save the file as a Photoshop DCS 2.0.

Then, choose "Multiple File DCS..." and choose which type of composite you want to save.

Binary Encoding, is the default choice and you usually want to stick with that.

Really, you should be asking the people printing this how they want it supplied to them. "

thanks guys

Originally posted by Marble
Here is what Utopian said:

"Speaking only VERY generally....

Your Spot Channel must be set up in your Channels Palette and you need to Save the file as a Photoshop DCS 2.0.

Then, choose "Multiple File DCS..." and choose which type of composite you want to save.

Binary Encoding, is the default choice and you usually want to stick with that.

Really, you should be asking the people printing this how they want it supplied to them. "

Yep saving as Photoshop DCS 2.0 should do the trick. I've done the same a month or 2 ago and it worked like a charm.

Look up "Export Clipping Paths to Illustrator" in your manual or the Help files.