suchagoodfeeling

Hi again all! Wondered if anyone could advise? Basically i have created some artwork in Illustrator with certain images which have been altered in photoshop. One is a logo and i have removed the background. The images have been placed in Illustrator and saved as pdf's. The main body of the image is black in colour.

However when i print, the area around the photoshop placed objects has a lighter shaded area, basically around the selection box it is creating a shade on the black. This does not actually appear in the document only when i print.

Sorry bit long-winded but hope this makes sence!

ronmatt

can you post it?

suchagoodfeeling

Havent used an image hoster to post anything before, heard of imageshack? I'll try upload it first thing tomorrow.

Basically when i print the work, the invisible box area around the image is showing a lighter shade on the black. Not in the image just when i print.

Silky

I'm still unclear about your problem. Invisible box area.....huh? What do you mean?
BTW, you don't have to use imageshack, you can click on 'additional options' and upload an image when you post, though you can only post some thing 500px by 800px and under 100 K.

suchagoodfeeling

Hi again, just thought there is no advantage to me loading the image as it appears ok on screen it is just when i print it out. I will try and explain better:-

I have a black rectangle section in Illustrator and i have placed a logo from photoshop over the black. The logo is circular with no background. Obviously if you click on it you have a square selection around the logo (the invisible box that i meant) However when i print it creates a shaded arean on the black where the logo is and i don't understand why?

Welles

When you created your image was the oval Photoshop import on a transparent background, if I understand your description. You could have use a clipping path in Photoshop to isolate just the oval logo and then imported the image into Illustrator. Alternatively, go back to your Illustrator file and use a Clipping Mask to 'cut out' your logo. Illustrator help has simple, excellent, instructions on how to do that.

suchagoodfeeling

This is a scan of the print out. Hope it works. The logo was saved on a transparant background thats what i don't understand it normally works fine!

suchagoodfeeling

Question answered! Duno why it wasn't working copyed the photoshop file and pasted into a new ps file then saved and placed back into illustrator. That did the trick. Not sure why it wasn't working right before?

Oh well, Thanks for the advice anyway guys!! Picking up some good tips from all you pros!

ladyfinger007

Maybe the image did not have a transparent background, but a translucid one?
How did you remove the background, magic wand and delete? Layer mask?