[thelist] Fireworks + Photoshop selections ...

Thanks for the info jd.

i believe it was a path (not a selection like i thought) that i had saved,
that was causing the "clipping path" effect.
i did not instruct the path to clip in photoshop at any time...

like many folks, i use photoshop for production of my images, and fireworks
for web optimization...

i understand the difference between bitmap and vector tools, i use both.
i need to use both.

my question is, do i have to delete my paths every time: before i go into
fireworks in order to optimize.


i find myself keeping two separate files:
 1.  one working in photoshop 
 2.  one stripped down and flattened version to bring into fireworks. (the
layer effects still don't translate well)


thanks for any help on this :-)

megan



-----Original Message-----
From: jdowdell@macromedia.com [mailto:jdowdell@macromedia.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 3:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [thelist] Fireworks + Photoshop selections ...


At 7:42 AM 3/22/0, Cauley, Megan L wrote:
>i have a photoshop file with a selection saved.
> -> i did load the selection during the making of this photoshop file.
>i save the file, *with the selection off*.
>when i bring the .psd into fireworks 3 , fireworks 3 treats the selection
>like a clipping path....


If you're coming to web tools from printing tools, then it's often easier
to approach Fireworks by thinking "Illustrator" than by thinking
"Photoshop".

In both Illustrator and Fireworks you can select an object just by clicking
on it. You can group objects together and ungroup them. You can put
different sets of objects in various layers. Everything remains editable,
even across working sessions.

Photoshop is very different. As its name implies, it is a photo-processor
which deals with sets of pixels. The key technique is to learn how to
create and manage selection sets. Unfortunately the terminology makes this
confusing... "alpha channel", "selection channel", "layer mask", "quick
mask", "color channel" and even "layer" and "object" all have mixed
definitions.

In this case, if you made a selection channel and saved it with an RGB
image many other tools will read this fourth channel as an RGBA image. As
aardvark noted, saving as RGB would work, or else if you make the alpha
channel fully opaque and store the selection set in a fifth channel that
would work too, or exporting as TIFF or some other non-editing format would
be another way to go. Drag'n'drop between Photoshop and Fireworks can be
another way to handle this.

Summary: An RGB image with a fourth channel is treated by most tools as an
RGBA image.

jd




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