Transparency in Signlab 7

[Karl Williams]

Photoshop’s great for this mate. As for the Signlab Peter will be on in a bit so hang around. I’m sure he’ll have an answer for you mate.

[Peter Normington]

Nick
I have never come across it
but it may be possible to simulate the effect by using the clipping tool, depending on the objects. if you post up what you need as a pic or a cdl file I can take a look

Peter

[Peter Dee]

You could set the top layer to no fill (clear) and give it a hairline to see the edge. To give colour to the top part which doesn’t overlap you could weld it with the bottom object then delete the overlapped part, then colour the remainder.

[Lorraine Clinch]

What about Phill’s edu-post about creating vehicle wrap designs? That showed the outline layers…just thinking out loud really, may not be what you mean at all 🙂

[Nick Harper]

Hi Peter.

Here is the sort of thing i’m after. I know i could overlay the objects in signlab, weld them, then colour each portion separately, but i don’t think that would give an accurate representation of transparency.

If you have any suggestions they’d be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,
Nick

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[Steve Morgan]

I don’t think SL has an option to do that. If it’s for visual can’t you import the jpeg?

[Robert Lambie]

Will you be printing or cutting the work in the end?

[Lorraine Clinch]

Ah, knew I was barking! (up the wrong tree)

[Nick Harper]

It would be for printing.

This was done in Illustrator 9 using the Transparency option.

If i import it back into Signlab it looks the same(ish) but each segment of the circles are separate objects.

I just wondered if SL can save the time of using Illustrator first.

[Peter Dee]

This is simple, use a combination of weld types and just re-colour the "shadowed" segment adjusting the layer order to suit.

[Alan Drury]

SL can’t do that but if your version has Gimp I think you can do it in that but not with the vectors.
Alan D

[Peter Dee]

I can re-create that in SL in 2 minutes.
It’s just a question of applying a new palette shade to the "overlapped" area to give the right impression.
Use the "AND" weld feature on a copy of the image to get this portion.

You can go here http://colorschemedesigner.com/ to find the complimentary colour of the two overlapping colours.
This will give you the windows system code number for the colour.

Then, using this little gem of a free (non-installing) program http://www.colorschemer.com/colorpix_info.php you can create a new palette colour in SL with exactly the right shade.

Colorpix is very useful for matching and re-creating ANY screen colour.