Set the tool for a gradient from BLACK TO TRANSPARENT.Ħ) Select the transparent/white layer mask in layer 1.ħ) Make a black to transparent gradient in the transparent/white layer mask in layer 1. Issue: BLACK GRADATION WITHIN A WHITE/TRANSPARENT LAYER MASK DOESN'T PAINT A BLACK GRADATION INSIDE THE WHITE/TRANSPARENT LAYER MASKġ) Build an photoshop file 50x50 pixels file.Ģ) Add a new layer (layer 1) above the transparent layer (layer 0).Ĥ) Add a transparent/white layer mask to layer 1.ĥ) Select the "GRADIENT TOOL". GRADIENT TOOL NOT WORKING WITH LAYER MASKS. So, here's the bug I've been trying to get Adobe to have a look at - once again. the bug form doesn't submit - how distrubing (glad I've saved-off the text so I can share it here). I did purchase Designer & Publisher last year, along with using the GIMP & Inkscape (for outlining raster mostly) I have a workflow that is exciting to move forward with, and the occasional hiccup is fine with good gentleman as yourselves to help us beginners move along.Wow, went to Adobe's "Feedback/Bug Fix Form" at. It is nice to have such good software available without having to deal with Adobe's subscription or Quark's annual upgrades, however it is easier to break the Illustrator dependency than Quark's. It seems that using opacity and the occasional "double-object" placing a white one under the colored is indeed a suitable work-around. I also do not know definitively if there are any pitfalls I should be watching for using this setting across all of our output. Using PDF/X-4 has recently become another standard we use, but most of our previous output settings were based on "flattening", although I think we could adapt all jobs to PDF/X-4 (a custom setting to keep raster resolution, etc.) but as I am self-trained and have not dealt with very many jobs using transparency overprinting. Note that these files used PDF version 1.6, which I think is necessary whenever using opacity values of spot colors (as they require unflattened transparencies if not allowed, spot colors are converted to CMYK).įortunately, we are our own service provider and plate jobs directly with our own equipment. I am just wondering the real-life application of such use of spot inks? Would not a tint of a spot ink always overprint, anyway? Also, I have no problems producing vector based gradients of any number of different spot colors at arbitrary stop positions, with or with an opacity value, but tints just do not work, unless rasterized.īut when positioned over another object "overprints" (disregarding whether Overprint attribute is used in the spot color the setting it irrelevant in gradients, even in spots where the opacity value is 100%), and behaves accordingly like in this PDF:Īs you do not want to overprint, one possible workaround would be using a hard copy of the spot color object to knock out, and then use the opacity-based version to apply the ink. I was going to suggest the opacity based workaround, too, and it does not seem to have any restrictions (so I can have any number of stop points at arbitrary positions with diverse opacity values), but also cannot produce a tint-based version. If you were using "tint" to achieve the gradient, I would be interested in why I cannot seem to make that work over here. It seems that using "opacity" I am able to adjust the "midpoint" to other than 50% for what it's worth.
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