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CutPath in photoshop?

Posted by Peter Normington on 25 January 2010 at 09:01

I have been sent some tiffs, created in photshop and with bleed and a cutpath. I can see the cutpath if opened in photoshop, but not in illustrator. What I need to do is get wassach or signlab to recognise the cutpath when imported. Can anybody help me to do this.
I know how to name and set up a CutPath in illy, but not done it, if indeed it can be done from photoshop?
I have tried saving the psd file as an eps but the cut path still doesn’t do marching ants!
Thanks in advance

Peter

Peter Normington replied 15 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 10 Replies
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Dan Osterbery

Member
25 January 2010 at 09:12

hi Peter,
the cut path will be there in illy, they often are not coloured (when imported) so you dont see them, do a select all and you should then see it, select it on its own drop in cut contour colour and save as eps and it should be good to go!

regards

Dan
Peter Normington

Member
25 January 2010 at 09:32

Hi Dan
Thanks but "selecting all" only selects the tiff as that is all that is there.
The cutpath must be embedded in the tiff as I can see it as a path in photoshop.

🙁

Peter
Dan Osterbery

Member
25 January 2010 at 09:35

Hi Peter,
ok then you can select the path in photoshop, and export paths to illy! then open it drop colour to make cut contour and then place in the correct position over tiff and that should work!

regards

Dan
Peter Normington

Member
25 January 2010 at 09:57

Dan
Mucho gracias

you’re a star

Peter
David J Evans

Member
5 February 2010 at 13:03

You can bring TIF and PSD with a path directly into Signlab and it will detect the path and allow you to use it as
contour path
clipping path
clipping and contour
vector object

You dont need to go into llustrator.

Best regards

-David
Peter Normington

Member
5 February 2010 at 18:40

David,
normally that is the case, but this tiff did not have a visible cutpath, and signlab did not regognise it, thats why I was asking how to correct it in pshop or illustrator, I had already brought it into signlab.
Any ideas why this happened? I think maybe it was because the tiff was created in cs4 and signlab has not caught up?

Peter
Stuart John Halliday

Member
5 February 2010 at 20:57

Peter,

The path will be in photoshop but possibly not set as a clipping path. From the path palette you can select which path you want to set as a clipping path. Once this path is set you can place eps (not tiff) in illustrator. When you embed image the path will appear.

Hopefully this is right. Just tested and seemed okay.
Peter Normington

Member
5 February 2010 at 23:27

quote Stuart John Halliday:

Peter,

The path will be in photoshop but possibly not set as a clipping path. From the path palette you can select which path you want to set as a clipping path. Once this path is set you can place eps (not tiff) in illustrator. When you embed image the path will appear.

Hopefully this is right. Just tested and seemed okay.

Stuart
the path was in ps, and set as a cutpath
the issue was it was not being recognised by signlab
Dan sorted the problem for me, a while ago
so not a problem
Thanks any way

Peter
David J Evans

Member
7 February 2010 at 11:41

CS4 shouldnt be a problem (works on my machine fine), there are several types of paths in PhotoShop, that combined with the different formats (PSD, TIF) I thought we had supported them all but might have missed one.

Can you send me you file and I will see why we miss it.
mod-edit

Best regards

-David
Peter Normington

Member
7 February 2010 at 11:59

Hi Dave, File sent
Tks

Peter