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why can i not turn a file into a transparency?
Hi guys and Ladies,
my brain is not functioning today… tranparency 101
I have a logo, send to me from another sign company…its a lovely EPS, it has lot of white around, and for some reason, no matter what I do I can’t make it go away and turn it into transparent, so i can contour cut it in Flexisign ?
What am I doing wrong….I can do it in Photoshop…but getting it back into flexisign or AI is still have the white around it.
I am not having a very good week….! please help me!
Thanks
Henrik
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6 Replies
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Hi
what version of Flexi are you using, Flexi only supports transparent background from 7.6 upwards. In 7.6 go to Bitmap main menu then half way down there is a Transparent Magic wand tool.Kev
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Hi Kev,
thanks – Flexi 8.01
I have found and used it, but I still can’t see the object behind it? (:)
I am going crazy!I have probably just forgotten something
Henrik
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Hi Again Kev,
I am not sure if it is me or not, but….
….I am working on my friends machine which has flexi 8 installed, some cheap and nasty Core2Duo 1 or 2gb of ram… now I am working on a 32mb AI file, which I am importing into flexi – I have in AI made a path around the graphics that I wish to run around, as I need to print this on clear in reverse and place on acrylic with frosted vinyl around, but I need to cut out a white background so the colors will stand out more.
Now, I have applied the transparency wand and I have walking ants around, but NO action in Flexi just sitting there showing 75%, but it hasn’t crashed and Task Manager shows a lot of activity, and it has been almost 15-25min since I ran the task.
?? i need help! ??
thanks for taking your time
Henrik
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Hi
if you have an AI path use that to cut you white vinyl, or use the normal wand, invert the selection & then convert marquee to vector that will give you your white cutable shape. If you duplicate the shape & align over your image you can then mask the image so only the image shows. Hope this helps &* i’ve understood correctly what you are trying to doKev
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thanks Kev,
got it! need a brain upgrade! one that does not get tired so quick
🙂
Henrik
my EPS file had come from an advertising agency which looked like it had been through Dreamweaver’s EPS conversion or something like that as it was tiled, not a complete vector drawing…and when I look at it, it was probably never made in a vector program….. just odd the guy said I could use the file he had made to make a 1500×400 cutout of it.
anyway, problem solved, I grabbed the ol’pen tool! man, thinking that the machines will do it all for ya these days! what I fool I am!
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Sometimes you need to unmask the image when it has a big white background. I’ve found that a lot with importing PDFs.
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