InterMedia Image with Pro*C?

Can I write InterMedia Image application with Pro*C? Where may I get more information?
Thanks,
Louis

I am sure you can. But we don't ahve any pro*c examples. We dor have an OCI example in "c". That might be helpful. It is in <ORACLE_HOME>/ord/img/demo/imgdemo.c
The above should be a good starting point, you might want to ask in the proc*c forum how LOBs are handled.
Larry

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I can't get Dr Browns Image Processor Pro to work from Bridge with Photoshop CC 2014

We use the wonderful DR Browns Image Processor Pro script a lot, but cannot get it to work from Bridge with PS CC 2014. When I select files in Bridge CC and then go to Tools> Dr Browns Services 2.3.1 > Image Processor Pro it just pops up an error message that says ReferenceError: photoshop is undefined.
The actual script works fine if I launch it from Photoshop CC 2014 - just not if I load it from Bridge CC.
I have unistalled it and re installed a few times, both manually and through the Extension Manager CC.
I am using a Win 7 64bit computer.
I assume there is some change in the scripting part that loads Photoshop from bridge but not sure. It worked fine in CC. Just not CC 2014.
I opened the Dr Browns Services .jsx file but don't see anything obvious. This is the section related to the Image Processor Pro part:
// This routine takes an array of files. If called by Photoshop,
// it will invoke Dr. Brown's Process 1-2-3 with the files. If called by
// any other app, it will send a BridgeTalk message to Photoshop
// to invoke this routine with the same arguments.
drbrownserv.process123 = function (files) {
// Bring Photoshop to the foreground.
BridgeTalk.bringToFront ("photoshop");
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// Image Processor with the selected files
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btMessage.target = "photoshop";
btMessage.body = "drbrownserv.process123 (" + files.toSource () + ");";
btMessage.send ();
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I copied that .jsx file to a new name "Xbytor Image Processor Pro.jsx" edit that file changed the string Dr Browns services to "Xbytor Image Processor Pro" then commented out all the code that added tools menu items but "Image Processor Pro" and I put that file into
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Getting Russell Brown's Image Processor Pro to work with an action

I have Photoshop CS6 with Russell Brown's Image Processor Pro installed.
I have the ongoing task of processing pics of different sizes and different width/height ratios.
I would like to get the following result using IP Pro (in collaboration with an action):
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2. Watermark pic.
3. Save.
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5. Save the smaller version as 'Documentnamex' (i.e. adding an 'x' to the document name for the thumbnail.
I have 1-3 in an action and have used it for years.
But as for the task of a smaller thumbnail, kept in ratio but chopped and named with an x - I am stumped. I downloaded IP Pro for the task, but I can't get it to work.
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"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Startup Scripts CC\Adobe Bridge" even though Bridge CC is 64Bit seems to use theat location.
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Importing images with text into Final cut pro

I'm using FC Studio on a 15" Powerbook 1.67 GHZ 1.5 GB RAM OSX 10.4.9 with a 300GB external HD.
I'm editing a short film and am using some still images. I've successfully imported and used photographs edited in photoshop. I'm trying to import what is essentially a screen shot of a MSword Doc consisting of boxes, text and graphics.
I've exported the word doc to PDF and imported to photoshop with 300dpi and saved as both jpeg and png. When viewed in photoshop the resolution of the text appears normal. It imports sucessfully but when viewed in full size in the timeline or external monitor the resolution of the text is terrible. I've also tried adjusting the scale of the image in the Canvas.
I've read up on this issue a little and have tried reducing and increased the image size and dpi. Has anyone else tried to import still images with text??
I apolgise if this issue has already been addressed - I've tried using the solutions provided for still images (without text) but have come up against a wall!
I would appreciate any help or feedback!

I have used Adobe Illustrator saved out as.png with great results.
Larry jordan has good info for you here;
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Image Processor Pro and Picture Processor load eps files without rasterizing them

Hi. My name is Lucas. Im from Argentina, now living in Brazil. I have the problem that is in the title. Im new doing this stuff but reading a lot i discovered that both scripts open eps files and because they dont get reasterized, then saved files looks preety bad.
I know that there are some parameters to open eps, ex:
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#target photoshop
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So, if you know some way modify image processor pro or picture processor i will be very pleased.
Because i will only use the script to manage eps files and save them as jpg (save for web) i dont need an special button to activate that option. Keep it simple. Thanx!!

You can tweak ImageProcessorPro.jsx by make the following edit.
Search for code that looks like this:
ImageProcessor.prototype.openDocument = function(file) {
var self = this;
var settings = self.settings;
var mode = DialogModes.NO;
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var isRaw = ImageProcessor.CAMERA_RAW_FILES.contains(ext);
if (isRaw) {
and insert this code right after it:
if (ext == "eps") {
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    epsOpenOptions.mode = OpenDocumentMode.RGB;
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I haven't tested this at all but it looks good from here.

Using still images with Final Cut (and the apple suite in general)

I have had a re-occuring and long term problem that has caused me many lost hours of head scratching and work arounds, and as of yet I have not been able to come up with a good solution.
Its to do with integrating still images with the Final Cut suite.
If I receive a high quality image from a client to use in their video and I then try importing it into Final Cut and animating it, it always ends up looking like a pile of ahem. Often I will get "swimming" lines appear across fine detail on the image, and parts of it will flicker as it moves across the screen. For instance, if I have a picture of some blinds or other fine detail (especially horizontal and vertical lines), when I add a grow and throw movement to it the detail will become very noisy - buzzing and flickering like mad.
I have found I can counter this by resizing the image in photoshop to a resolution closer to SD video (700w or 500h) - but I always end up losing detail, and the flickering and noise is only reduced, not eliminated. Other things that have helped are blur effects applied at a very low level, like 0.5 blur, so its not noticeable visually, but Final Cut seems to treat it differently and quieten the noise and flicker down.
However, all of these workarounds are ultimately still giving a reduced quality product.
Also, this problem is not necessarily constrained to Final Cut, I am currently fighting DVD Studio Pro because it is murdering the text quality in a stills slideshow I am creating - and in this situation there is no animation being applied. No matter what file type (psd, jpeg, tiff, png...) or size I output the text and images from Photoshop in, the moment DVD studio pro gets hold of it, it turns to cripe.
For a while I was putting it down to the fact that I usually edit in SD (PAL) formats, and there just wasn't the resolution available to reproduce fine detail. However, I do often see other people achieving pin-sharp fine detail on still images and text in SD formats (the Apple templates are a good example)
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Quad G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

still images with too high a resolution will always cause problems. this is due to the detail of the image being finer than the scanline of the tv can display ... obviously this will caise the image to flicker as these details alternately appear and disappear as and when the scanline can display them. as you have discovered, the answer is to apply a very small blur, the effect being that the detail is spread by the blur such that the scanline can dislay it correctly.
text issues are often rooted in the same problem ... unless the text is placed very carefully (whole even number on the y axis) then the quality may be impaired due to the resulting interlacing/scanline issues

Image Processor Pro won't run in PS6 using Window 7 OS.

Trying to run IPP on a Windows 7 OS in PS6. I select my images in bridge and run the script IPP. Photoshop pops up and a blank white screen appears and nothing else happens.

Scripting was an extra down for PS7 and the first version of Photoshop to have scripting support PS6 has no scripting support. The Image Processor Pro script uses newer scripting features like Plug-in support that was added in CS3 and I think Image Processor Pro needs newer then that like it may only works with CS5, CS6 and CC. I use it with CS6 and CC... I do not usr the installer I extract the zxp file and install manually. There are a couple of minor issues the X is working on Alpha Channels in PSD files and some TGA and BMP support... Adobe has pull Russell Brown off of Photoshop and X is feed up with Adobe.. Make sure you have the latest version of the script... I use Windows 7 Pro OS...
CS5/CS6 Script:
Dr. Brown’s Services 2.3.1
Dr. Brown’s Services is a collection of time-saving utilities for designers and photographers. Use the new CS6 Extension Manager to install both the Mac and PC versions. If the Extension Manager does not work on your system, use the manual installation process instead. Installation will require that you be in the ADMINISTRATOR mode on a PC.
This installation includes:
Image Processor Pro
Stack-A-Matic
Place-A-Matic 8-bit
Place-A-Matic 16-bit
Trouble Shooting
Having trouble with any of my scripts? Then be sure and try my "JUST FIX IT" http://www.russellbrown.com/scripts.html#Fix_Itscript that will remove all the damaged preference files. This could to the trick to solve your issues.
IMAGE PROCESSOR PRO
STACK-A-MATIC
PLACE-A-MATIC
Adobe Photoshop CS6 Installer
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Installer

Help needed to enhance Image Processor Pro Script to save transparency in TIF

Hi everyone,
this is my first post in this community.
We have a droplet which reduces the resolution of tif images to 72dpi and save the tif image with transparency. This works fine, but it took to long for the whole process of many picture in different folders. That's the reason why we searched for another script which can preserve the folder structure and set the resolution of every tif image to 72dpi.
We found Image Processor Pro, which does exactly what we needed. The script works perfectly in CS5 and CS5.5 as it saves the tif with the transparency. Those saved tif images could be used in InDesign with the transparency.
BUT Image Processor Pro script works not so perfectly in CS6 as it seems that this option to save a tif with transparency is not implemented or does not work in the script. The result is that those converted tif images are w/o transparency in InDesign. That's a huge problem for us.
This is the point where I need your help. Neither I have experience yet with jsx-files nor with the right syntax of it.
Is there a way for anybody of you to implement / enhance Image Processor Pro so it will save tif with transparency?
We used the latest German Version of Image Processor Pro: 2.3.1 (link: http://www.russellbrown.com/scripts.html)
(The German version contains only german on screen texts!)
I am very thankful for every help you can give.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Possible causes:
1) It probably has nothing to do with your image files, but you won't know until someone else tests one of them. You could create a small 50% gray TIFF file with transparency and post it, assuming you know it exhibits the issue with IPP.
2) At the download link you provided:
http://www.russellbrown.com/scripts.html
There are two installers for Image Processor (CS5 and CS6). Did you download and install the CS6 Version Installer?
3) Another possible solution other than modifying the script is to reset the PS Preferences file. When strange things happen in PS with no explanation this usually fixes them. My PS CS6 was inflating all new files by 1.4MB. After examining one of the files it turned out PS was inserting a Costco printer profile into every new file. So don't automatically assume your PS image files are not somehow being corrupted and causing loss of transparency in IPP. Creating a new Preferences file resolved my issue:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375776
You may want to record your old Preferences settings prior to creating a new one, but test it first with the default settings.

Unable to get Image Processor Pro to run on Laptop. Creative CC suite.

Hi, All,
now i been using the excellent plugin from Russel Brown on my work PC for as long as i can remember. I had to do some work from home on Windows 8.1 Laptop 64Bit.
However this strange issue as show as image below just unable to get past this point. Seems like something is stuck. I can close it only. left it for ages. I even tried to trace the system with Microsoft Systemmonitor with no luck.
I have re-installed the creative cc bridge now three times along with photoshop, cleaning out every reference to data settings etc..Still with same results.
Even from outside bridge just trying to run the script from Photoshop directly gives the same result.
Anything have any great suggestion what possibly could be reason. I got a ton of batch conversions i need to save PNGs otherwise i would just just the normal image process.
Thanks in advance.

Its Not Adobe Code and its not shipped with Photoshop. Photoshop versions also has bugs in ScriptUI which is used by scripts with a dialog. Image Processor Pro 2.3.1 has some bugs. Some files formats its saves may have problems.
Russell Brown works for Adobe but he has been pulled away from Photoshop. Xbytor is the programmer that wrote Image Processor Pro he does not work for Adobe and he is feed up with Adobe for not fixing bugs in Photoshop scripting. He stated he will support Image Processor Pro for some time.
Russell web site has this. The Open Source code is now available for many of my script and panels
Because of new projects and a changing demand for my time, it will be necessary for me to move on to new projects at Adobe. For this reason I will no longer be able to support, or update many of my scripts and panels. Never fear! – I am releasing the source code for many of my programs and if you are a programmer then you can use this code to modify and change my scripts to meet your needs. If you are not a programmer then I recommend working with anyone on the list of programmers that I have supplied below. However! Let me make it clear that his code is not to be sold. This is an open and free source to be used for the good of humankind and Adobe Photoshop users around the world
===========================
I do not have a Mac or a Windows 8 machine to test on. On my Windows 7 PC Image Processor Pro 2.3.1 and newer versions run on CS6, CC and CC 2014.. X is still working on it

Minor modification to Dr Browns Image Processor Pro?

I came across Dr Browns fantastic script and I'm hoping there's a developer that might be able to help with a minor (?) revision to the code.
He has kindly released the source code on his website http://www.russellbrown.com/images/tips_downloads/OpenSource.zip
I need it to do two main things:
Save 1. run a renaming convention on the original images and retain the file type/ extension
Save 2. resize the images for web (incorporating an action called up from PS to convert to RGB). No problems here.
I know I can do this in a two step process with bridge to rename and then use the script (or indeed a droplet) to resize for web, but I wish to keep this as a one step process.
Image Processor Pro does both of these fine except for one thing:
I need an option in Save 1. to save files in the format they already are - rather than forcing all files to save into a particular format.
I get hundreds of images from various companies (I work as a designer for an arts organistion) and they are all in a variety of formats and I want to maintain the highest possible quality file we are provided.
Basically I want the option of using the naming convention section of the script without the file save as file type bit.
This assue this could be done by either skipping the File Type/ Quality section altogether (but keeping the save to subfolder), or by including "keep current extension" into the file type drop down.
Things that would also be great:
3. An option to delete/ replace originals in the process (as I will be deleting these anyway)
4. The script can be made into a drag and drop application that calls up bridge/ PS?
Any assistance on this would be great.
PS- I have posted this over on the Photoshop discussion page as well, as that is where I came across the scipt in the first place.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5856877#5856877
Thanks

Yup didn't realise you are on mac.
If you don't want to keep the originals with their original names (ie if you're just overwriting the originals) then why mot just batch rename in bridge first? If you run an action or script then you'll have to wait whilst each file is opened and saved, whereas you run a batch rename and it's a file system task - virtually instantaneous.
Then just image processor, or a batch action from bridge (I'd create the latter because the. You can reuse it without needing to check settings or destinations over and over)

Image Processor Pro v3.0.1 is released

Image Processor Pro v3.0.1 is released and can be found here:
ps-scripts - Browse /Image Processor Pro/v3_0_1 at SourceForge.net
Here are the changes:
---------------------------- v3.0.1 ----------------------------------
- Removed 'Cancel' button on startup progress window. It didn't work
and would require some gymnastic coding to implement usefully.
- Added 'BatchMode' flag for calling IPP script from other scripts.
See demo script RunIPP.jsx for more details.
- Fixed window title to reflect correct script version
- Tweaked text in log file for readability
- Changed behaviour of 'Selection from Bridge' to match behaviour in
Contact Sheet II. If Bridge is running and no files are currently
selected, all image files in the current folder in Bridge will be
processed. The number of files to be processed is now present in the UI.
- Added Progress Bar. This is enabled with the flag
ImageProcessorOptions.USE_PROGRESS_BAR. The default is true.
- Added the ImageProcessorOptions.PROCESS_UNSAVED_IMAGES flag to permit
processing unsaved images. The default is false. You must edit the
script to enable this functionality.
- Fixed JPG Format Progressive bug. The number of scans was not being
set. The variable FileSaveOptions.DefaultJPGScans can be modifed to
change it from the default value of 3.
- Fixed for situations where there are no Action Sets or no Actions
in the selected Action Set.

Much appreciated, xbytor2.

Image Processor Pro xml issue:

When I download the script Image Processor Pro.xml to my window 7 computer with CS6, the File Type reads "Safari Document" When I select my images in bridge and try to run IPP the only thing that happens is a blank white window opens and sometime PS will crash.
I just upgraded from XP with CS5 to Win7 with CS6. I had no problems running IPP in XP/CS5

Thank you very much, xbytor2.

Images with black blotches showing up.

I have a wierd problem with picture quality that just started showing up.
The black detail in certain areas of the picture is becoming overly black. Blotchy black areas especially on the screen and in prints. Black detail becoming overly compressed. The gradation between light and dark on my 23 HD and 17 Cinema display shows as layers of black, not a continual gradation to black. To explain it another way, the gradation of black colors (when going from light to dark to black) appears on the screen almost like Newton's Rings. I'm starting to get blotches of black in the darker areas of my monitor images and now on the prints. All the pictures are RAW (shot in Adobe 1998) from a Nikon D70s. None of the images have been altered in any way. No color correction, exposure increase or decrease, nothing. Straight RAW files imported directly into Aperture from the camera. I have printed all these pictures before and they looked fine. Now they have these black blotches in them. Not all pictures have the problem but the ones that have the darker black gradations (primarily to deep black).
I have a custom .ICC profile I use for printing and the monitor was calibrated too, using ColorVision tools. Spider2Pro and PrintFix Pro. But even is I use the standard profiles for the monitor and the printer, it's still the same.
The wired thing is, if I open the image with an external editor, Photoshop CS2, I do NOT get the same problems on the screen as I do with Aperture. (I have not printed yet from Photoshop CS 2 since this started, only viewed.)
This is just a recent problem, and as I said, I have been printing the same pictures before and viewed the same pictures before with no problems. I noticed this starting to happen after the last 2 updates for Aperture, and it has progressively gotten worse.
Any picture that has a continual gradation from a light black to dark black to full black has this problem. (On a 9 zone gray scale - say zone 5 thru 9)
Equipment Notes: Aperture 1.1.2, Mac OS 10.4.7, Apple 23 HD display, Apple 17 Cinema Display, Dual 2 GHZ PowerPC G5, 3.5 GB RAM, 2 SATA internal Hard Drives, (the one with Aperture has 30 GB's left on it and the other that I use as Vault Back-Up has 164 GB's available. Video Card - ATI Radeon 9600 Pro, AGP bus, 64 MB RAM
Epson Printer - R2400, using K3 inks on Premium PhotoLuster paper.
Does anyone else have this problem? Do you know how I send this problem to the Aperture Team?
P.S.
I too have notice a tremendous slow down in Aperture as of late as other people have stated.
I too sometimes don't get a image in the viewer. I sometimes only get the Right half of an image in the view. I can get other pictures to the left and to the right of the image in question but Aperture sometimes just picks a picture to only give me half. I must shut down and re-open Aperture to get the complete picture on the screen again. I can't figure that one out.
Thanks,
Jim

Well, besides my 2 previous posts, I would like to add something. I started printing and everything was going well once I turned On Screen Proofing off.
Oh, I guess I must first point out that I have calibrated my Monitor and Printer, using ColorVision's Spyder2Pro for the monitor and their PrintFIX Pro for the printer. It looks pretty good. But here is the problem.
As I started to say, after I turned off On Screen Proofing everything looked good, on my screen and my prints. I started to print using my Colorvision settings and my custom ColorVison printer profile. It worked for a while on some prints but I ran a print with a long gradation of black to deep black and that replicated my original problem. Blotchiness and striations of black. I found that if I printed with Epsons' ICC profile it was fine. So the ColorVision profile didn't work on some prints with deep gradations of blacks.
So I called their tech support. They asked if I did their 225patch target or the more extensive 700 patch target (I'm not sure of the correct number of patches). I had done the shorter 225.
They told me this is a common problem if you only do the 225 Patch Target and that I would have to do the 700 Patch Target to not get black patches/striations in my prints. As a note: the striations looked exactly like the On Screen Proofing problem when it was turned on.
So as it turns out, I had 2 problems at the same time.
I haven't done the 700 patch test yet. I'll let you know when I get it done, how it works out and if the On Screen Proofing matches the print as suggested by firstlaunch.
thanks for all your help and suggestions!

Still image with motion has flicker pulsating problem

I use FCP 5.0.4
I have read the many threads about this subject and am still not able to succeed in getting rid of the flicker/pulsating in a still image with motion.
I would say about 25% of the stills with motion have the jitters; all the rest look great.
The first thing I tried was
Effects:Video Filters:Video:Field Shift:none
as well as
Effects:Video Filters:Video:Flicker Filter min, med, and max.
Maybe 5% were corrected with this, but the other 20% still had the jitters even after using a combination of the above or by themselves.
I just burned a test DVD using a variety of the persistently jittery stills from my current project and although the jitters change a bit, they were still there so all of these failed:
1. Effects:Video Filters:Video:De-interlace Upper (odd)
2. Effects:Video Filters:Video:De-interlace Flicker Filter minimal
3. Effects:Video Filters:Video:De-interlace Flicker Filter max
4. Effects:Video Filters:Color Correction:Broadcast Safe conservative 115
5. Effects:Video Filters:Video:Flicker Filter max
6. All the tricks together which means
Effects:Video Filters:Video:De-interlace set at Upper (odd)
Effects:Video Filters:Video:Flicker Filter max
Effects:Video Filters:Video:Shift Fields: none
Effects:Video Filters:Color Correction:Broadcast Safe conservative 115
I know this issue has been kicked around a lot and i know some folks are not happy that it has to be kicked around at all. But I am doing something wrong because my DVDs look very un-PRO. Would anyone like to talk me through this nightmare preferably with as many details as possible since I am obviously missing something critical.
Thanks in advance.

There is no 'secret formula'. It just takes thinking through the issues.
1. Set the image size for each image that makes sense within the context of your project. Going significantly larger than the displayed area of that image (including movement) is just asking FCP to do additional work to resize the image. FCP is less sophisticated at resizing images than Photoshop. Use Photoshop and your planning of the movie to get the images to the appropriate size.
2. Wasted effort and totally irrelevant- you could set it to 7200 dpi if it makes you feel better.
3. Good idea - be sure to knock down areas of pure or very bright white. These are the elements that will give you the most trouble.
4. Don't do this unless you want to throw away HALF the picture information. Deinterlace deletes half the picture and then photoshop recreates it through interpolation of the remaining half of the picture. Why do this?
5. Make your determination based on what works. If you have properly exposed and sized the material, the need to blur is greatly reduced. ONLY do it on the images that need it. Why degrade every image if you do not need to do so?
6. See number 5
7. Lay out your time line early, view the work on an external broadcast monitor and only mess about with the images that require it.
In the psycho business they have term for much of the referenced post - it's called superstitious behavior. Basically it comes down to "It worked before so we recommend it to everyone without regard to their situation" ... here's another example:
Many years ago in my architecture practice, we had one of the early 512k macs (upgraded from the 128k!) I needed to show one of the interns how to create a project budget spread sheet in Excel. Inadvertently I clicked on Word, said "oops", closed it and opened Excel and we went to work.
A week later I was walking by the computer and overheard the same intern explaining how to work with Excel to another architect. "First you open Word, close it, THEN you open Excel", she explained. When asked by her 'trainee', why do you have to open Word first, wouldn't it just be easier to simply open Excel? Her answer was just perfect, "Well, it works every time, what's wrong with that?" so it goes ...
good luck with your project.
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Using images with Transparency in Photobooks

I'm to a point where I would like to use images that utilize transparency in Aperture photo books. Is this possible? So far, PSD files that I've cropped with PS's lasso tools to have transparent areas surrounding their subject tend to change this area to white when dropped into a book.
Does anyone know of a way or format to use to retain this transparency? I love the speed of Aperture's photobook tools, along with export and printing options, and would like to be able to layer images that bleed together, or have a cut-out subject on top of others, but I haven't noticed a way as of yet.
Is this ability even available in Aperture yet?
If not, is there a third party plugin that gives it to the user when making photo books?
Please let me know soon, else i'm going to have to adjust my workflow back to photoshop only for page set layouts and the created PSD files on blank book pages- not fun.

i have been trying different ways to make it work fine, and find several things to consider:
Note: for the next ways i tried with images with transparency.
1 searching images in the iPad with safari and saving it into Photo app
then copying it with the popup and pasting it with the popup inside Pages or Keynote:
work fine.
2 using the saved images that worked fine in the first way but
then inside Pages in my opened document, using the menu to import the image from the
Photo app, to insert the same downloaded image used in the first case:
does not work, the image appears with a white background.
3 trying the first way (manually copying and pasting) but with the images i imported from
my MacBook Pro using the normal way via iTunes(10.1.1 (4))
does not work, some images appears with a black background, other images
appears with a white background.
4 trying with the images of the third way, but changing the method using the photo app
menu from Pages
does not work as in the third way
i dont have problem using transparency images in the first complex way.
my problem is when i try to use images with transparency in the other three normal ways.

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