" Check the layers in Photoshop before you place in Illustrator. I've seen everything from 20 blank layers to 150 different versions all saved in one Photoshop file. Delete the dead wood, flatten as needed in photoshop, then place as a link in Illy. BTW always save a native Illy file when working with transparency. As said postscript doesn't understand it and once flattened in an eps it's a PITA to work with. It's getting to the point where if you have to write postscript your screwed. Transparency is killing the eps format.
Doesn't anyone use layout apps for these things anymore?"
So select the flatten into one image option. Got it!
I never bothered to check the Photoshop Image but now I shall start doing just that.
Always save the FINAL file as .AI aswell ....just in case?
( so when I have to go back in a week to change images theres no slice n dice...)
The image did not have any transparencies going on,
just a 4 col image of a roast saved as a Psd.
You know, if I suggest this to the Lead Hand and co-workers,
Ill be the only one actually doing this.. the rest wont / cant be bothered and im positive ill hear about server space waste ect ect ect.
Also having to save as an AI and then place into Indy..
.. No way in hell will my co workers adapt to doing so, even if I can state good reasons to do so.
But then exporting out of Indy ive been told to export to a Postscript, *which flattens transparencies no?* so Pdf would be the other option and in all honesty I have no idea which... pdf version to use.
*** I have a how to make a correct pdf link given to me by a member somewhere.. ill have to dig it up and re read it a few more times ***
If I choose to follow this advice they will more then likely tell me not to as im making things ' more complicated then they need to be'. ..... and this is the way we have always done it speech / or the / this is how I was taught.
Im telling you... you cant win... you get all this great knowledge from people who have done this work for years and years and yet cannot use it...
Thanks Again All!!!
Any links where I can learn more about transparencies within files? Might as well eat up all the info I can. Soon ill have a binder of printed off info for a vast number of topics , all thanks to the members here
