But I wanted to share the additional steps for smoothing out the edges just in case. With that being said, it unlikely we would ever want to use such a dark text color on a dark background anyway. The result are much better this time around on both light and dark backgrounds. On high resolution images you may need to increase this to 2 pixels or more but it's best to try the smallest possible value first to avoid unnecessary masking.Ĭlick the Add new mask button again to create a new mask on the group layer. Press CMD/CTRL+G to group the masked layer and then with the group select ALT+LEFT CLICK on the mask layer icon to create a selection. The edges become very rough looking and unpleasant looking. But something unexpected happens on darker backgrounds. This is actually looking pretty good now, especially on transparent and lighter colored backgrounds. Step 9Ĭlick the layer visibility icon on the Mask channel again to turn off the red overlay and see the results. Then press CMD/CTRL+V to paste the image into the mask. Open the Channels window (Window > Channels) and click the layer visibility icon on the newly created Mask channel. Press the Add layer mask button at the bottom go the Layers window. Step 7Ĭlick the layer visibility icon on all 3 adjustment layers and select the original layer again. Press CMD/CTRL+A to select all, and the CMD/CTRL+SHIFT+C to Copy Merged. The background should already be #000000 if it was pure white to begin with.If it isn't then you will also need to adjust the shadows input level. Step 5Īdd a new Levels adjustment layer, and in the Properties window adjust the highlights input value until the areas that you want to be 100% opacity are #FFFFFF (you can use the eye dropper tool to check what color individual pixels are). Open the Properties window and turn the Saturation all the way down to -100 on the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. Step 2ĭouble click on the background layer to unlock it, and then create a new Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer. Now of course, the actual logo template is completely vector, but in this hypothetical situation we are going to pretend that some deranged lunatic has flattened the logo into a JPG and deleted the original file from existence (the horror!). I am using a logo from this set on Medialoot. The first step is to open your image in Photoshop. The right side is the same image after using the technique in this tutorial. And PNGs weren’t around in those days.Here is a quick preview of what you can expect from using this technique, the image on the left is a flattened JPG file with no transparency layers. JJ, yes these days you have other options, but they didn’t take away the old options. To simulate transparency in PageMaker days, we added a clipping path to a JPEG or TIFF. Trevor, I’ve read a couple of your posts on JPEGs and clipping paths and I keep meaning to tell you that this was our workflow way back in the dark ages before Photoshop introduced transparency in CS5.5 and before PSD could be placed into desktop publishing packages directly and before TIFFs supported layers and transparency. Going forward, I will now be checking such images in Photoshop, and if they contain workpaths, demand an explanation. I have encountered competition entries that I strongly suspected of cheating. I occasionally get asked to judge photo competitions, and in some categories like photojournalism and natural history, localised editing is against the rules. I suspect that a great many people are also unaware of it, and could be tripped up by it as well. I had absolutely no idea about this feature, and was adamantly proclaiming that it was wrong until shown that it was me that was wrong. It seems highly likely that it would have to. I also wonder if saving out to JPG from layered document that contains a lot of paths, impacts on the saved file size when saving out to JPG. It turns out there was an easier way, and that's all I am saying. There have been times when I have shared vector content by inviting users to PM their email address, so I can post the PSD file to them. What I am saying is that JPG's ability to support multiple, and compound workpaths, provides us with a tool to share workpaths on this forum. Why would I want to do that? When I can save a PSD and a PNG file with transparency in the first place

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