Hey all, I really need help!!! I used photoshop to crop a photo, i have
extracted the character, i have made the background transparent and have saved
the file as a psd, my problem is now that i have imported the psd into
FreeHand, the pic has a white background if i try to put in a background it'll
have a white block between the character and the background!!! I've been trying
many different aproaches but to no avail. Your help will be greatly
appreciated. :confused;

> Hey all, I really need help!!! I used photoshop to crop a photo, i have
> extracted the character, i have made the background transparent and have
> saved
> the file as a psd, my problem is now that i have imported the psd into
> FreeHand, the pic has a white background if i try to put in a background
> it'll
> have a white block between the character and the background!!! I've been
> trying
> many different aproaches but to no avail. Your help will be greatly
> appreciated. :confused;

FreeHand does not support transparency except for 1bit images (black &
white) A few workarounds, though.

Sharp edges:
- Use clipping path (eps or tiff).
- Paste the image into a vector shape. You can create the shape in
Phtoshop by: select the transparent areas, invert selection, (contract &
smooth), make path, export path to ai, import to FH.

Soft edges:
- Create background color in Photoshop. Preferably it will cover the whole
document but you can match the background color either by using the
eyedropper tool or making the backround color in photoshop using the same
cmyk!!! color and If you export pdf don't include color profiles or use
color conversion.
- Export the freehand as eps or ai open in Photoshop and make an image
with background and photo. Then import back to FreeHAnd to add text for
example.

The easiest:
Use Illustrator and import the native photoshop file, even with layers. ;-)

Jukka

If you want to use the clipping path method, here's a detailed tutorial.

http://www.concentric.net/~ellipsis/PSClip.html

Judy Arndt