Okay: Photoshop 7 and XARA X are getting weird!

[Gary David Bouton]

It's a good "weird", though.
Bitmap selections that go through the clipboard are only supposed to be rectangular, right? I just copied a round saelection of a bitmap to the clipboard from PS 7 (it came out about 3 days ago) and HOLY MACKEREL...it pasted into XARA X as a round selection!!!!!


This sorta stuff isn't supposed to happen! Are the XARA Engineers taking Harry Potter lessons or something?



My Best,

Gary David Bouton
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Free education! The Writings Web site
and the updated GaryWorld Gallery is pretty okay, too.

[Gary David Bouton]

It's a good "weird", though.
Bitmap selections that go through the clipboard are only supposed to be rectangular, right? I just copied a round saelection of a bitmap to the clipboard from PS 7 (it came out about 3 days ago) and HOLY MACKEREL...it pasted into XARA X as a round selection!!!!!


This sorta stuff isn't supposed to happen! Are the XARA Engineers taking Harry Potter lessons or something?



My Best,

Gary David Bouton
Gary@GaryDavidBouton.com
Free education! The Writings Web site
and the updated GaryWorld Gallery is pretty okay, too.

[dalel]

I can get a PS selection to paste just fine in the shape I select (from PS 6), but it has a white rectangle around it, which I have to trim off. I used an oval selection.

According to the PS documentation, the clipboard automatically converts images into raster, but no mention is made of transparency, so it looks like it makes transparent areas white.

Xara constantly surprises!

Dale

[This message was edited by Dale Landry on April 21, 2002 at 09:56.]

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[Sheff]

If you can pic something in PS 7 with the Magic Wand(like the sky around a tree or something) and paste it into Xara with Alpha intact, I'll go out and buy it. Otherwise, I'm covered with PS 6.

Please give it a shot and let us know if it works.

Sheffield Abella
sheff@sheff.com
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[dalel]

And I found out that the Windows clipboard will only hold bitmaps without Alpha channel, plus a few other formats that do not support Alpha/transparency.

I looked all over for a clipboard enhancer or clipboard product that would allow Copy/Paste of Alpha/transparent gifs, with no luck.

Dale

Why, I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir, because I’m not myself, you know...
- Lewis Carroll

[Sean Sedwards]

Windows clipboard supports at least 1 or 2 native bitmap formats that can have alpha masks. Bitmap Version 4 was introduced with Win95 and Version 5 came in with Win98 / NT 5. It's surprising that more apps don't support transparency on the clipboard.

Regards - Sean

[Sheff]

A real timesaver for me is to go into the channels, cut and paste a 1 bit alpha into Xara then trace it. Then I go back to RGB cut and paste the image from PS to Xara.

Then I trace the alpha and use the image as a fill. If necessary, I will manipulate points, but usually I don't need to.

Sheff

Sheffield Abella
sheff@sheff.com
www.sheff.com

[dalel]

Can't wait to try it.

http://eyesitewebdesign.com/dale.gif

Why, I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir, because I’m not myself, you know...
- Lewis Carroll

[mike engles]

Hello

This is the way to do it.

Make a arbitrary selection in Photoshop.
Copy and paste into XaraX as Device Independent.

Next in Photoshop make the selection into a path, with .5 in the tolerence.

Name this path. Make it a clipping path.

Export this path as .eps NOT .ai. that is change extension to.eps

Import this as Artworks .eps or Freehand .eps into Xarax. Xarax cannot import a.ai. Xara 1.5 will.

Anyway this .eps will not be visible as it has no stroke. Press TAB to select the unstroked object.

Give it a stroke. The pasted image seems to come in too small at 600 dpi. Scale this 200%

Align the objects, remove stroke and slice.

Mike Engles

[This message was edited by mike engles on May 22, 2002 at 14:46.]

[This message was edited by mike engles on May 22, 2002 at 14:58.]

[This message was edited by mike engles on May 22, 2002 at 15:00.]