[Mike Gondek]

I should have known Hungarian same name as Ernie Kovacs the legendary pioneer in broadcast video. Glad to hear the info was useful.

[Mike Gondek]

I would open the pdf in illustrator, delete everything (including the numbers) but the guides. Select everything and then in the transform palette chaneg the width to 291, then hit ctrl enter to scale proportionately. Copy thsi to the clipboard.

Next make a new document in Photoshop to be 291mm x 121mm @ 120px/cm (=300dpi). Paste the illustrator clipboard elemetns into Phototshop, should fit like OJ Simpson’s glove. The open your desgine psd documents and drag all your layers at once to the new docuemnt with teh die. You can then see where all the folds are to design this to match.

Finally in phothsop, you can save as a Photoshop PDF. Would be best to taek InDesign out of this job, unelss there si somehting youneed to do in Indesign.

You may need to add bleeds, and guessing the German on the bottom may mean add 3 mm bleed on each side. Mein Deutsch is nicht gut. So you may want to use canvas size to add 6mm to height and 6 mm to bottom, before transferring your lovely artwork over to the template.

[Mike Gondek]

Works for me,even with “Maximize Photoshop Capability turned Off”.

If you embedded rather than linked to the psd, then object >> Object Layer Options wold be greyed out (so that cannot be it).
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Ahah, Elementary my dear Watson. If the image is 16-bit rather than 8-bit, this will happen.

Otherwise, try resetting your InDesign Preferences, incase something got corrupted. IF thsi is still nto working, give us the answers to these questions.

Questions
When you reopen the .psd in photoshop, do you get layers?
Did you possibly save this on a mac platform psd and imported into a PC InDesign (or visa versa)?
IS the image 16 bit by any chance

[Mike Gondek]

Glad to hear you got this working. Canopus must install a photoshop plug in, so make sure you hold onto your canpus install disks.

I do not have this plug in, but it may display images at a 1:1 pixel ratio, so you may need to res your image down to like 720 x 480 pixels.

[Mike Gondek]

Photoshop goes through firewire. Try attaching your video camera to your PC to see if you can get this to work.

[Mike Gondek]

https://mikegondek.com/creativetech/photoshop/14/psp14.htm

Link to an old tutorial, which should help you out. My book “Photoshop for Digital Video” has a much more detail and 3 tutorials of progressive skill level to make you into an expert in dropping out backgrounds.

[Mike Gondek]

Brushes is where you can do this.

Drag your straight rectangular artwork (you will want a thin wide strip that will distort to a circle path) to the brushes palette swatches, and create a new art brush when asked. Then draw a circle, and apply your new art brush to the cirlce.

To create an art brush your artwork must be vector path. So if your artwork is bitmapped, you can use the live trace and then expand this to vector shapes.

Another method to try is to use an envelope distort of arc 100%. Thsi will give you a half circle, so you would have to create a top adn bottom half gfor your artwrok and stitch this together. The first method is better, btu have added thsi second mehtod incase you like working with envelope distorts.

[Mike Gondek]

Step 1
If you have one shape with many fills and stroke, I assume this was done using the appearance palette. You wante to then use expand appearance, and this will then expand so that this is rebuilt without any appearance attributes.

Unless you really need to expand the appearance, I would keep the appearance attributes, and edit them in the appearance palette.

Step 2
If after that you watn to put each item on it’s own layer, use the layers palette flyout menu and there is a release to layers command there that will distribute you paths to their own layer.

Not sure from you post if the multiple strokes are assigned to one path using the appearance palette, or if you have many paths on the same layer. If you do nto have appearance attributes start with step 2.

[Mike Gondek]

I also had the error message with your settings that says the thumbnail size is not possible. Switching from inches to pixels fixed the problem. Seems Photoshop has an easier time calculating the math using pixel only.

My result did have 1 pixel of white space all the way around, but ateast this worked.

[Mike Gondek]

Illustrator and n After effects actually get along very well. Your artwork may either be extremely complex with excessive amoutns of points, or you may have a bitmapped image whichyou would proably rather export to .psd format whchi works well with AE.

Describe your artowrk, does it contain an element like a gradient mesh. Try saving somehting really simpler like a rectangle from Illustrator, and see if you have the same problem.