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Illustrator/Photoshop/Quark help

I'm having a bit of trouble.

I have taken over 70 images, cut them out in photoshop (using erase, not a path) and then brought them into illustrator, and seved them out as .EPS.

My problem is, when I put them into quark, they are transparent in thre preview, but whe nI print it out on paper or PDF, it makes the background of the box white.

The only way I can seem to get around this is to make a clippign path with illustrator or photoshop, then use the quark option for using the path to clip.

Is there any way in illustrator to automatically create a path around a raster object, and keep the path clean?

I can create a work path in photoshop simple enough, but the path is never any good.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you,

Jon Hughes,

Linx Tech

Well, I just figured out that you can set the tolerance if you right-click and make work path (I was making it from the path tab) and that helped a lot, by setting it to 0.5pixels. However, because I need it in EPS form, I need to export it from photoshop to EPS, which means I han't have a thumbnail preview...

Any workarounds?

Hi, welcome to TF

Let me ask you something: why are you saving a bitmap image as an .eps?
When I work with clipping paths in Photoshop (selection - make working path - clipping path - save) I save the image as a .tiff and then I place it in the other program (in my case, InDesign).