Clipping paths - practical uses of?

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• How to insert photoshop image with a work/clipping path in illustrator using the path?

  How to place an image in Illustrator using the clipping/work path created in Photoshop?

  I have a .jpg of an object on a background image. This image has a clipping path that écrêtera the background of the image. I could clip the outside background (in Photoshop) and save the image as a file .psd with a transparent background, and then insert the .psd file in Illustrator... it's easy. What I can't understand is to place the image (bottom) .jpg and use clipping path Photoshop be clipping path in Illustrator. In this way, I can take this clipping path and use it as a layer of gloss spot for production. I work on a Macbook Pro and CC2014. Thank you.

  But you can export the path separately in Illustrator, then he get married to the JPEG placed as a clipping mask.

  In traces of Photoshop Panel, target the path, and then choose file > export > traces to Illustrator...

  He'll write a .ai file. Open and select all (it's a quick and easy way to 'see' the path because Photoshop it will export with no border or background, leaving mostly 'invisible' on the artboard Illustrator).

  Then you can copy it to the collage at the top of your JPEG placed. Position them as you like, select this option and the JPEG format, then choose object > clipping mask > make...

• remove objects from the background using a clipping path

  A number of years, I've learned a very easy way to remove objects such as logos from backgrounds using masks and then saving them as .eps files that might be included in the InDesign documents without funds. You would simply use the magic wand to make a selection, inverse, create a path and the rest I do not remember.

  Simply, I can't find the notes I had on how to do it and can't remember the steps. It would literally take 2-3 minutes at the most to do.

  Does anyone know of this method, or something similar and very simple. At best, I am a Photoshop basic user.

  SRiegel wrote:

  You don't need to (and probably shouldn't) eps more use.  This is an obsolete format.

  The clipping path will read as well in a PSD or a TIF.

  You can also use any Photoshop path recorded as a trace of shadow in InDesign, even if it has not been identified as one in Photoshop.  Object > Clipping Path > Options allows you to choose a Photoshop path in the file.

  At took the words out of my mouth.  PSD is the preferred format for most applications these days.  You can choose to import as a single merged object or keep the layers.  EPS works well with Photoshop.

  In response to Sid, if you use a clipping path to draw a logo, then you might as well make the logo as a vector of the form of the original using as a model.  I regularly take this approach fuelled the logos of low resolution for things like sponsors etc.  Because you do not use the raster version, you can n to facilitate tracking it.  All the perpendicular lines of the limits of the image (don't know why I don't have not just "square") can be stored neatly by use of Guides, but you can also force the path points to have a square to the previous point by holding down the SHIFT key.  The resulting vector shapes can be saved as custom shapes, but I use libraries as you can organize them better.

• Automatic import of Images w / clipping paths

  All my images are automatically import in Indesign with clipping paths lit. I don't want to! Everything started happening (apparently at random) a few days ago. Happens if I place the image. Happens if I slip and fall. It happens in any way that I get the image in Indesign. Help!

  I don't know how to turn off once it is in Indesign, but I have THOUSANDS of images, I can't select each to disable the clipping path. I was hoping it was a setting/preference somewhere that I'm not aware of.

  [Left the forum Cloud/Installer generic for program specific forum... MOD]

  I checked into this a bit. There is an import adjustment that allows for your to choose or not to apply photoshop clipping masks in your TIFF. He must have been checked and is now applied to all.

  

  On the next tiff that import you, select The show Import Options before clicking OK. Uncheck the box Use Photoshop clipping paths . I think you'll just have to do this with a single file, and then it must carry over the placed files.

  

• Make layers of new form of clipping paths

  Hello

  I had this problem for a while now, since the upgrade to CS6. When I create a new path on a layer to create a path he keeps creating the path on a new shape layer. That means, when I have a way to create complicated I'm end up with 30 + layers form which should be selected and deleted individually backgrounds. With the old version, I could keep adding shapes on the same clipping path using the pen tool, however I can't seem to understand how to reverse the changes to keep all the way on one layer. Is there a way to do this?

  I'd be very happy someone could give advice.

  Thank you

  Jamie

  Please refer to the Options bar.

  The tool is fixed"shape" to go? «If so, change it to ' path '.»

• Scripting: upper limit on the number of points in a clipping path to be converted to selection?

  Greetings,

  I work with some great with rather complex clipping paths tiff files and have written a script to convert a path to a selection, invert the selection, and delete pixels to downsample and save a PNG image with transparent background for the web.

  If the number of points in the clipping path is greater than 1000, Photoshop stops with a message 'Illegal Argument' and will not make the choice. "Making selection...". "the choice in the path palette manually works fine and works almost instantly.

  The problem is especially frustrating since the manual selection is so easily.

  Does anyone know how to give more points or to override this limit? I would also like to experiment with a scriptable command to simplify the path arbitrarily if there is no way around the problem at hand.

  Thank you

  When you say a clipping path, do you mean a vector path of a layer?  Created in the document, or you all ready clipping path create it using the script?  If you simply want to create a png image and a vector mask, can't you reverse the vector mask and or copy in which layer you want to cut, then resize?  You don't need a raster image to create a png image.

• Need a script for the trails and clipping paths

  I have over a hundred images (.tif or.) TIF) which have cut a path, but the names are all different. In addition, some have been activated for clipping paths. I need all paths tracks/clipping named path 1. I found an old javascript to do this using ExtendScript Toolkit, but it does not work. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

  var selFolder = Folder.selectDialog ("location of pictures to treat... ») ;

  var files = selFolder.getFiles (/.) TIF | TIF / I) ;// must change to different formats

  argument newPathName var = prompt ("Put your cutting path name that you want," "path 1,"Clipping name"")

  for (var f = 0; f < files.length; f ++)

  {

  var doc = app.open (files [f]);

  var numberOfPaths = doc.pathItems.length;

  for (variety p = 0; p < numberOfPaths; p ++)

  {

  If (doc.pathItems [p] .kind == PathKind.CLIPPINGPATH & & argument newPathName! = doc.pathItems [p] .name) doc.pathItems [p] .name = argument newPathName;

  }

  doc. Close (SaveOptions.SAVECHANGES);

  }

  It is not a translation problem, after all, some of the files had problems sharing & permissions so I changed them all to & read/write. So I ran two separate scripts because I do not know how to combine them into one. It's what worked:

  This is script is for the NORMALPATH railways:

  var selFolder = Folder.selectDialog ("location of pictures to treat... ») ;

  var files = selFolder.getFiles (/ \.tif$/i) ;// must change to different formats

  argument newPathName var = prompt ("Put your cutting path name you want", "path 1", "Path name")

  for (var f = 0; f)< files.length;="" f++="">

  {

  var doc = app.open (files [f]);

  var numberOfPaths = doc.pathItems.length;

  for (variety p = 0; p)< numberofpaths;="" p++="">

  {

  If (doc.pathItems [p] .kind == PathKind.NORMALPATH & argument newPathName! = doc.pathItems [p] .name) doc.pathItems [p] .name = argument newPathName;

  }

  doc. Close (SaveOptions.SAVECHANGES);

  }

  This is for the CLIPPINGPATH railways:

  var selFolder = Folder.selectDialog ("location of pictures to treat... ») ;

  var files = selFolder.getFiles (/ \.tif$/i) ;// must change to different formats

  argument newPathName var = prompt ("Put your cutting path name that you want," "path 1,"Clipping name"")

  for (var f = 0; f)< files.length;="" f++="">

  {

  var doc = app.open (files [f]);

  var numberOfPaths = doc.pathItems.length;

  for (variety p = 0; p)< numberofpaths;="" p++="">

  {

  If (doc.pathItems [p] .kind == PathKind.CLIPPINGPATH & argument newPathName! = doc.pathItems [p] .name) doc.pathItems [p] .name = argument newPathName;

  }

  doc. Close (SaveOptions.SAVECHANGES);

  }

  I didn't have a single file with two paths inside and a dialogue has come, and I changed it to track 2, no sweat.

  Thanks for all your help!

• Distort a Jpeg image with a clipping path

  Let me first say that I like to use clipping path jpegs in Photoshop. They can be used in InDesign course, batch and convert other formats that need transparency and so on... One irritant is that there is no easy way to distort or adapts the clipping and the overall image once the file has been created, or at least not that I know.

  For example, I'm working on a piece of furniture that already contains a clipping path, but the client wants the rectified image (or the prospect of the device removed, which I don't actually like). So, is there a more easy/fast way to do this instead of having to first distort the image, then try manually align the track of clipping or worse, make clipping path?

  Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks

  Distort the image in transformation mode (Cmd + T) can target only the path and use ADSI > transform path > Again (Shift + Cmd + T) instantly warp the path in the same way.

• Help to create a clipping path?

  I have a Crown that I would like to use as a picture frame and adopt Photoshop Elements 6... How can I create a clipping path to make this possible? Thank you. Gary.

  OK, if you now have a picture of a frame with the transparent central part, save it as a PNG file (or use the file... Save for Web to save it as a PNG-24 file) which keeps transparency.  You should be able to use this PNG file in Quark as you described.

  Ken

• Disable the automatic application of a related to PSD clipping path

  Beings,

  The forum search is broken so excuse me if this is already covered. I've recently updated to CS5 and every time I place a PSD file in my document, the clipping path (if it exists) is automatically applied.

  I'm using clipping paths in my Photoshop PSD inside Indesign more that I use, so I would like to prevent this happening automatically. This habit never to arrive before CS5 and I did not find the setting that controls this.

  I hope that this can be disabled because it is boring!

  TIA

  Paul

  Check "Show Options" in the place of dialogue and stop it here, it should be so sticky.  Or if you drag from Explorer / bridge to do a file > place instead, do it once must reset it.

• Ability to export an InDesign CS5 clipping path?

  I ran into a minor problem. We have just improved CS1 CS5 in our society, and at the present time, we are very happy with the change to the more 'modern' (if you found my advice here).

  In any case, before the installation of Adobe CS5, I recently asked our TI-guy to reformat my pc and reinstall Win XP again. I did this so that I can start from scratch and eliminate most common pc errors in a near future, (I got this pc from someone else some time ago, who used and installed some stuff on this topic that I knew or needed).

  
  Most of my data and files have been saved and re-installed. However, to my horror, that I realized that some of the image files in an InDesign document that contains MANY traces of clipping are is no longer listed as related but missing. I checked and saw that these image files are not saved at all.

  Now the problem is not return these images that I can quickly download and recreate a link to them from a number of databases.

  However, these images were all carefully cut out in Photoshop by creating paths of shadow for each and every one of them and these clipping paths are now lost with the deleted files.

  If I check my InDesign file now I see that each preview still retains the original cutpath of the original (but now deleted) Photoshop file. I tried to mark this cutpath first, copy it and then tried to see if I could insert it into an image file I opened in Photoshop, but this does not - at least for me - work.

  My question is now.., can these somehow clipping paths saved and re-imported in Photoshop.

  All creative, ingenious, heavy and even crazy thinking and methods are very, very welcome, because I wouldn't sit once more and spending hours of recreating these paths.

  Hoping on some bright minds out there... ;-)

  Thanks for any help in advance.

  You should be able to get a framework it starting from the clipping path.

  Copy this image in illustrator, then copy from Illustrator to photoshop file.

  When you are prompted in Photoshop, choose 'Path '.

  Seems like a lot of work to be honest.

  I'd be inclined to redraw the paths again if they are not so complicated that they shouldn't take too long.

• How to make Cut-Out with Clipping Path?

  Hello, help please?

  I need to provide a photo of an object that has been described as a 'Cut Out' and a Clipping Path must be included. Now I know this is not a rare condition, but I've never been asked before.  I tried to fill out the application, but unfortunately I was unsuccessful so far.

  OK... so with CS5. I cut the object using the feather (background selected then removed). I saved the way like a 'selection '. But what I ache to understand is this.

  The need is a jpeg file. And I know that if I flatten the file, then save in jpeg format, I'll lose the bottom of transparency and the article will be on white background. So if I send this file how the recipient find the clipping path - which I presume is the path that I saved in the paths tab?  Because when I flattened, I won't lose channels or paths. The captain that they will be an object of the required dimensions, they claimed, but it will be on a white background, therefore, he will not be able to simply 'fit' as a single item in any work they need to.

  Other elements were provided by other people and their file is a jpeg file, and he says he understands a clipping path.  So, I understand that this is possible, but I just can't get out!

  Sometimes I feel so dumb!

  Any help will be much appreciated

  Thanks in advance

  Mark

  I don't think that you can incorporate a clipping path into a jpg file, but you can send a png image

  with transparency based on web or low range of printing. (not recommended).

  The usual method is .psd or .tiff with transparency or the clipping integrated.

• Binding of Photoshop EPS files with clipping paths

  I'm under InDesign CS4 6.0.3 on a dual 2 GHz G5 with Mac OS X 10.5.7.

  We have a workflow that involves files Photoshop EPS being placed in InDesign with object value path of Photoshopclipping path.  If the link is updated or re-issued of the moment, InDesign no longer the image of the boundaries of the way - either on the screen or export to PDF - although still illustrates object -> Clipping Path -> Options choose the type of game to Tracé Photoshop.  The only way I found to get the clipping path to apply fully to the image is to change the type of Tracé Photoshop to zero and return to the Trail Photoshop, while the Preview box is on.  I tried different combinations to transform the Apply Photoshop Clipping Path option on / off power at the time of the initial implementation and at the time of the reissue of links with no effect on this behavior.

  Assuming that you use one format other than EPS and use transparency rather than masks are not in play right now, my questions are:

  1. is this a known issue with InDesign CS4?  If so, can we expect a fix soon?

  2. is there something that can be done on the side of the user who is less bulky than the workaround solution described above?

  They can't fix what they don't know, however. File a formal bug report here:

  Adobe - feature request/Bug Report Form

• AppleScript which rotates all clipping paths in InDesign CS3

  At the following link, there is an Applescript script to light all clipping paths and another script to turn everything off. The script to turn off works great.

  http://forums.Adobe.com/message/1106200#1106200

  I get an error when you try to run the script to enable clipping paths.

  Adobe InDesign CS3 has been an error: invalid value for set property 'type of cutting. Planned none / detect the edges/alpha channel/photoshop path/user path of change, but has received (= > ("clippingpath", (cutting type = > traced photoshop, applied path name = > "Path 1"))).

  Running InDesign CS3 version 5.0.4

  Any ideas on how to solve this problem?

  Thank you

  The forum ate my post. I would try again.

  You cannot use 'all', you must use the name that was used when the path was made. You can find the names by getting "the photoshop clipping paths" of an image.

  It works very well here:

  Tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"

  Tell document 1

  all graphs the value allPics

  Repeat with i from 1 to number of allPics

  define paths to the names of path of photoshop clipping point of allPics i

  If (count elements of paths) > 0 then

  {set the Properties of the point i of allPics to {(traced clipping:{{class=fontblue}}applied the name of path:(point 1, path), type of cutting:traced photoshop}}

  I allPics Properties of the traced clipping point

  end if

  end repeat

  tell the end

  tell the end

• Clipping Path Options went

  I have InDesign CS6. My path of cutting options have disappeared, so what I say is when I go to object and scroll to the bottom for a clipping path and select the arrow that nothing appears to me go further with this, how can I that restore you? We had this happens on all computers with InDesign CS6 and have always been able to restore but on our most recent OS X 10.9.5 computer I can't get this problem is resolved. Any help is appreciated.

  It is possible that the menus were edited (Edit > Menus). If this is the case, you can click Show all Menu items at the bottom of the menu object.

  If this isn't the case, then try to restore your InDesign preferences:

  Garbage, replace, reset or restore the application's preferences