FM will not import graphic properly

[TCBill]

Hello,

I have a very simple full-page graphic that will not properly import into FM. The graphic started out as a Photoshop file and I have tried importing it into FM as a .jpg, a .psd and a .pdf. (This is a print job so I'm in CMYK and am not using png. ) When I try the .jpg or .psd import, the white gradient bar and logo disappear but the blue background color remains true. A .pdf import gets all the content but the background and the logo colors change by lightening up and becoming a lot more luminescent.  I flattened the Photoshop file before trying to import is as a native file into FM but that didn't work, and of course the jpg file doesn't have layers at all. The PDF file doesn't have layers either. What am I missing here?

Thanks in advance for your help and suggestions!

Bill

[Bob_Niland]

If the original PSD is CMYK, you might try saving as EPS and importing that.

The preview in FM will be ugly (bitmapped color & lo-res), but the .ps or .pdf output should be optimized.

Part of the problem here is that Windows doesn't really support CMYK, but it also doesn't grasp EPS, so EPS CMYK passes through into the output unmolested.

[TCBill]

I hate to be an ignoramus here, but I don't know or see how to export an .eps from Photoshop version 25.3.1.
What's really peculiar about this situation is that the both the .psd and the PDF imported quite nicely before I had to go into Photoshop and resize the gradient block.

[Bob_Niland]

Try the Save-a-Copy menu.
It's still there in Ps 24.
But yes, Adobe is trying to make EPS go away.

[TCBill]

Adobe achieved their goal in PS 25.3.1... there is no EPS option in the Save a Copy menu.

[Bob_Niland]

I just updated my Ps to 25.3.1
File 🞃 Save a Copy…
Save as type: [Photoshop EPS (*.EPS)]
is still there.

Don't use either of the DSC options unless you must.

I do see in some Adobe on-line pages that current Ps will flatten EPS to raster on opening, though. So if layers & objects must be preserved, Illustrator would likely be needed.

But I'm going to guess that PDF is the new EPS.

[TCBill]

Oh, this is very strange.  My copy of Ps 25.3.1 does not have the Save As Photoshop EPS option in the Save a Copy routine. What I still cannot figure out is how/why FM can go into a *.PSD file or a *.JPG file and excise a portion of the image just as cleanly as if turning off a layer... especially since the *.JPG file doesn't have layers by definition.

[TCBill]

I decided to start from scratch, so I deleted the FM file I was trying to import the graphic into and recreated it. Believe it or not, the graphic imported correctly into the new file, as either .psd or as .jpg. All I can think is that something was hinky about the FM file I was trying to import into. I'd love to figure out what was going on, but I have already spent waaaay too much time on this.

Thank you for your help, Bob.

Regards,

Bill

[Bob_Niland]

TCBill: My copy of Ps 25.3.1 does not have the Save As Photoshop EPS option in the Save a Copy routine.

Here's what I see using that same 25.3.1

[TCBill]

Oh my gosh, that is quite a bit different than what I have–It's almost as though we are using entirely different programs.  I guess it's time to call Adobe... when I have time.  (At least my immediate pain point is resolved.)

[Bob_Niland]

re: I guess it's time to call Adobe... when I have time.

For double-checking before doing that,
Note that this is not:
  File 🞃 Save
nor:
  File 🞃 Save as…
but is:
  File 🞃 Save a Copy…