Feathering

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Frank_Cahill
Nov 1, 2005
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I have a TIFF file which I am placing in an InDesign CS2 document. I want it feathered on one side and want the feathered edge to blend with the background of the document in which it is being placed, i.e. I want the feathered bit to be transparent and to blend.

InDesign feathers all edges of the image. This is ok but it would be better if only the one edge was feathered. In Photoshop, I made a selection along the edge I want to feathered and feathered it by 20 pixels. (Foreground color was set to black and background colour set to white). It appeared to work fine in Photoshop, when I placed the image into my InDesign document, the feathered bit appeared white, not transparent.

I tried to make a clipping mask without success – it stayed white. I saved the file as an EPS file. It still remained white. Perhaps this is because of other layers I have under the feathered layer I have in the image.

Essentially, my question is how best to feather an image on one side so that that side appears transparent when placed into an InDesign document.

I look forward to your suggestions.

thanks.
Frank
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Cybernetic Nomad
Nov 1, 2005
EPS does not support partial transparency.

Save the file as a PSD intead. Trasnparency will carry over into InDesign
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Frank_Cahill
Nov 1, 2005
I created a PDF file from the tiff file but the transparent part (evident when looking at the file in Photoshop) appeared white when I placed it in the InDesign document. It seems to lose the transparency in the transfer. I’ll keep fiddling and trying things.

Frank
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LenHewitt
Nov 1, 2005
PSD not PDF, Frank
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Frank_Cahill
Nov 1, 2005
My apologies for mis-reading the first response. Yes, the PSD file worked fine.

Thanks for your help.

Frank
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glen_deman
Nov 10, 2006
When you go to select – feather, you are actually feathering the selection, not the image. After you have do this step, you need to somehow apply it to the image. You can select inverse (assuming your selection encompassed the image) and then delete, or mask, or whatever suits you.

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