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Filmy background on psd files in Illustrator
Hey,
I’m hoping someone can help me take care of my problem.
I am edging up on a deadline really fast.
I have a signature of my CEO in a tiff file (I don’t know all the deets because I’ve only been here 3 days).
I placed the file in an Illustrator doc.
When I printed it, there was a film in the background (even though it was save with a transparent background and has been used in the past without issue).
This film looks like a 10% or 20% transparency like you’d create with an overlay.
I have tried creating a clipping mask.
I have tried revealing the layer masks, editing them, disabling, unlinking.
I even tried using the paint bucket to change the background color to match the background of the document I am creating.
Still no dice.
Can someone please tell me what I’m doing wrong?
I need to know how to fix this problem and how to avoid it in the future.
Is it simply a setting or something?
I have been experiencing this in CS3 at work and also in CS2 at home with other documents.
I just don’t get it.
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2 Replies
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Your problem likely is a color management issue.
In illustrator
edit >> color settings >> emulate Illustrator 6 (this really means color managemenThen try
File >> Document Color Mode >> CMYKIf not color management than a transparency flatter issue.
see: https://www.adobe.com/designcenter/creativesuite/articles/cs3ip_transp_25.html#TransparencyBlendSpaceandcolormanagement
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One idea would be to create a path of the signature and export that path to illustrator. To do this I would convert to B & W & do a mask of the signature based on its color. Then I would convert the mask to a path and export.
Chris Brown
Illustrator & Designer
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