OT: Logos with transparent backgrounds

craftech wrote on 6/7/2004, 7:08 AM

For the life of me, I cannot get logos I have downloaded to open in a labeling program to print with a transparent background. I have changed them in photoshop 6 with the magic wand and/or the eraser and also tried the exporting feature so save them. I have saved them as tiff, png, psd, jpeg, giff, etc. and the results are always the same. When you open them in a 3rd party program like Avery Design Pro, or Epson Print CD, or Media Face 4, or Click 'n Design 3D the images have "white" backgrounds instead of transparent ones and are ugly.
They open in Photoshop with a transparent background however, but not in 3rd party labeling or CD/DVD print programs. Anyone know the magic solution short of creating the entire label in Photoshop then inporting the whole thing as a graphic?
Anyone with an Epson R300 run into this?

John

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Spot|DSE wrote on 6/7/2004, 7:35 AM

John,
email me an image, I'll make it transparent and send back to you in a format that Vegas can see correctly.
You might not be saving as a 32 bit file, which is required for transparency.

craftech wrote on 6/7/2004, 4:30 PM

Thanks for the reply Doug. I want to print the logos on DVD inserts and directly on DVDs. That's the problem. My CD printer is an Epson R300 which prints using its own Print CD program. Any form file I save in Photoshop looks white when I try to open the image in Print CD. The same thing happens with any of the other programs I mentioned above that print labels and/or jackets and inserts. The programs recognize jpeg, png, wmf, tiff, and several others. I can get the background transparent using Photoshop, but they are only transparent when printing with Photoshop. The Export Transparent Image feature doesn't work either even though when I search the net on how to do this, it says it will export the images with transparent backgrounds for use in third party programs.
They are always white instead of transparent when opened in any other program in any picture file format I save them in........png should certainly work, but it doesn't. It ends up white as well.

John

Randy Brown wrote on 6/7/2004, 4:35 PM

John, if you can get it to look right in PS why wouldn't you be able to crop it (round) in PS, save as .png, and then open it in Print CD as a background?
Randy

craftech wrote on 6/7/2004, 6:22 PM

I can easily create this in Photoshop with a transparent background.
It's the DVD logo and the Dolby Digital logo Randy. I wanted a small white logo with a transparent background. Every file type I save it as or export it as ends up appearing with a "white" background when you open it in any other program except Photoshop (in other words the entire canvas is white. the logo is there but youy can't see it because it is white on white). It shows up that way in the preview window before you import it into 3rd party programs. The problem must be in Photoshop.
John

Randy Brown wrote on 6/7/2004, 6:25 PM

Well hell...I figured it couldn't be as simple as I thought...sorry John.
Randy

craftech wrote on 6/7/2004, 6:27 PM

Thanks for the help Randy. I truly appreciate it.
Regards,
John