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• • August 11, 2010 at 8:45 am #56644
    LilFisch

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    Hi,

    I've been all over Adobe's site with no luck and just found your forum. I've searched some, but I'm kind of on a time crunch. I'll have to spend more time here – looks like a great place. But right now I'm really confused and looking for some suggestions.

    If this topic is covered and I missed it, my apologies.

    I'm doing clipping paths in Photoshop. When I import them into InDesign, it only recognizes the outside edge, none of the inside areas of the clipping paths. In the Clipping Path menu, “Include inside edges” is greyed out. I use this all the time, but this problem just started yesterday. I've run out of ideas. Any suggestions?

    Thanks!

    Gina

    Okay, trying to research this some more, I discovered that it is just CS4 that does this. If I open a document in CS2 and import the same file the clipping paths work fine.

  • August 11, 2010 at 12:06 pm #56646
    Pointyhat

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    Are you making the clipping paths in CS2 or CS4? Mebbe if you update them in CS4? Are they .tifs or .eps?

    All I can think of at the moment…

  • October 5, 2010 at 12:55 pm #57255
    Anonymous

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    I too was losing my inside edges when bringing in .tif files with clipping paths from PS CS4 to InDesign. For the heck of it, I clicked on 'Save Image Pyramid' in the TIFF Options dialog from Photoshop. The “include inside edges” is still grayed out in ID, but my inside edges now remain intact.

  • October 6, 2010 at 12:36 pm #57259
    rydesign

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    Honestly I would make sure that all your Paths in Photoshop are using the correct Path type. Select all the path and click on exclude overlapping areas. This will convert your paths and knock out the inside edges. You then shouldn't have to mess with anything in Indesign. Just select the correct Path. Alternately Save all your Images as PSD and put the background on a seperate layer. You then could turn that layer on and off in the Layer options in InDesign.

    The POWER is YOURS!!!

  • October 6, 2010 at 12:38 pm #57260
    rydesign

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    P.S. If your Path is set up correctly in Photoshop the area you would like to show should be all White in the Path preview and everythign else including the inside areas should be grey

  • January 10, 2014 at 11:31 am #66626
    dleather

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    I realize this is an old thread, but I’m having a related problem. Hopefully this message finds it’s way to the near-top of the list.

    When I select a photoshop path in clipping path options, the path with “holes” shows up correctly. However, if I choose to inset the path by a pixel to get rid of a couple errant white edges, I lose my “holes”. I thought clicking the “Include Inside Edges” option would work, but that option is greyed out / unselectable.

    What is happening here? Why won’t the inside area of the path continue to be recognized when I select an inset value?

    Thanks for any advice you can lend…

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