PS CS help needed

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Jim Weaver
Dec 3, 2005
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I have a calendar template in .gif format, I want to place a photo in it for printing, how do I do this?
Have tried copying the photo file to clipboard and pasting, that did not work, can’t make import or place command work either.

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Roberto
Dec 3, 2005
"Jim Weaver" wrote in message
I have a calendar template in .gif format, I want to place a photo in it for
printing, how do I do this?
Have tried copying the photo file to clipboard and pasting, that did not work, can’t make import or place command work either.

Jim, go to the menu bar – "Image" and change "Mode" to "RGB"
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Jim Weaver
Dec 3, 2005
I ended up with a black box!

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"Jim Weaver" wrote in message
I have a calendar template in .gif format, I want to place a photo in it for
printing, how do I do this?
Have tried copying the photo file to clipboard and pasting, that did not work, can’t make import or place command work either.

Jim, go to the menu bar – "Image" and change "Mode" to "RGB"
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Roberto
Dec 3, 2005
"Jim Weaver" wrote in message
I ended up with a black box!

???? I don’t know how that happened, unless you pasted over the single existing (background) layer somehow.

Open the GIF again. Change it to RGB mode. Then take Layer – New – New Layer. And now paste or open the image you want to insert and paste it into the new layer.

If you are pasting from the clipboard, and the outcome is an all-black image, then my guess is that you copied the picture from stream-media. There’s a work-around that allows you to copy from a streamed image, but I forgot what it is.
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Tacit
Dec 3, 2005
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"Jim Weaver" wrote:

I have a calendar template in .gif format, I want to place a photo in it for printing, how do I do this?
Have tried copying the photo file to clipboard and pasting, that did not work, can’t make import or place command work either.

That is because GIF files are "indexed color." You have to convert to RGB (Image->Mode->RGB) first.

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Chris
Dec 3, 2005
How large is the black box you pasted in in comparison with the calendar image?

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"Jim Weaver" wrote:

I ended up with a black box!

"Lorem Ipsum" wrote in message
"Jim Weaver" wrote in message
I have a calendar template in .gif format, I want to place a photo in it for
printing, how do I do this?
Have tried copying the photo file to clipboard and pasting, that did not work, can’t make import or place command work either.

Jim, go to the menu bar – "Image" and change "Mode" to "RGB"

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