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lecan
Joined: 07 Jan 2009
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Location: Belfast
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 Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:43 am Post subject: importing objects |
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When I cut out an image (say of a chair) from photoshop and place into Powercadd I get a very jagged edge to it.
Does anyone know of an effective solution to this ?
Essentially I'm trying to paste photo objects (perhaps with a complex outline) into a powercadd drawing |
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Rob C
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:29 am Post subject: |
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I don't know exactly which end is the problem. In Photoshop you might try playing around with your selection techniques , specifically the feathered edge setting of your selection. On the PowerCADD end, I don't know if transparency support from PS is a problem or not since I haven't worked with this at all. Someone else must know.
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GaryV
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:03 am Post subject: |
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Have you confirmed that it looks jaggy when printed also?
You used both the word place and paste. As I recall I have had acceptable results placing a jpeg so you might want to save it out of PS then place the jpeg. Sorry, I do not have time to experiment right now.
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lecan
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:23 am Post subject: |
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Hi
Using the extract filter in photoshop I separate an object (office chair) from a photo and then "copy and paste" the chair into a powercadd drawing.
It tends to paste in PC with a rectangular white background (non transparent ) for which I then select and "object to bitmap" under the "tool" menu. This minimizes the white background in the image but the effect is quite messy with at best a ragged outline
With photoshop I've tried scaling up the original & then extracting but no improvement.
I've tried printing and its essentially what you see is wyg.
maybe I'm doing something wrong ? |
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How Goes It
Joined: 02 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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| lecan wrote: | | maybe I'm doing something wrong ? |
Convert the picture into an object using Vectormagic.
http://vectormagic.com/
This gives great results.
You no longer have to deal with manipulating bits.
It's a whole lot better to deal with objects.
http://powercadd.designcommunity.com/topic-19182.html&highlight=
Read the whole thread.
Some of the URL's in the thread may be old.
These guys use to work out of Stanford (university).
Steve |
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How Goes It
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