Hi, I have a query which has been puzzling me for a long while and I would be really grateful if anyone here had the answer.
I work on a newspaper doing page design in Quark XPress and we use Photoshop to do a lot of cut-outs, especially in sport.
What I am trying to do is to produce a cut-out image of eg. a football player on a transparent background but WITH a drop shadow, which I can then import into Quark XPress. I can do cut-outs fine at the moment, but not with a drop shadow.
I have no knowledge of experience of Photoshop, but someone once showed me how to use to produce cut-outs for the newspaper - I open the picture of the person I want to cut out, use the pen tool to put anchor points around the outside of the person, then on the path menu I select save path>OK. Then I click clipping path>OK. Then on the file menu I go to save as>and save the image as an EPS.
When I then open the image in Quark, I have the person cutout on a transparent background and I can then click on the image and choose a runaround that is the same as the clipping path, so I can put the image into text and the text will wrap around it.
I hope all that makes sense - sorry that I have to use very basic explanations but - as you have probably guessed - I really have no idea what I'm doing!
Anyway, what I'm trying to do is to get a cutout that's exactly the same and on a transparent background, but with a drop shadow.
I can add a drop shadow in photoshop using Layer Style>drop shadow but I don't know how to get this to be part of the cutout that I import into Quark.
Can anyone help??!
I work on a newspaper doing page design in Quark XPress and we use Photoshop to do a lot of cut-outs, especially in sport.
What I am trying to do is to produce a cut-out image of eg. a football player on a transparent background but WITH a drop shadow, which I can then import into Quark XPress. I can do cut-outs fine at the moment, but not with a drop shadow.
I have no knowledge of experience of Photoshop, but someone once showed me how to use to produce cut-outs for the newspaper - I open the picture of the person I want to cut out, use the pen tool to put anchor points around the outside of the person, then on the path menu I select save path>OK. Then I click clipping path>OK. Then on the file menu I go to save as>and save the image as an EPS.
When I then open the image in Quark, I have the person cutout on a transparent background and I can then click on the image and choose a runaround that is the same as the clipping path, so I can put the image into text and the text will wrap around it.
I hope all that makes sense - sorry that I have to use very basic explanations but - as you have probably guessed - I really have no idea what I'm doing!
Anyway, what I'm trying to do is to get a cutout that's exactly the same and on a transparent background, but with a drop shadow.
I can add a drop shadow in photoshop using Layer Style>drop shadow but I don't know how to get this to be part of the cutout that I import into Quark.
Can anyone help??!