You pro graphic design people,

I'm gradually learning more and more on Illustator, but came across something today that stumps me.

The idea of what I want is a yellow background with some bar items on top and them name just below. As for the items, the pictures originally had a blue background, so I cut out the background in Photoshop and had just the item cutout with a transparent background in a PSD file. I opened those item PSD in Illustrator (chose the maintain layers option) and drug them into my original file.

On screen, they look fine. I see the bar items and it seems like nothing surounds them except the underlying yellow background. But when I printed my work, the bar items each have a different yellow color surrounding them to the point of the smallest square around each corner. See the pic below.

The background yellow I'm using in Illustrator is FFFF00. So i went to Photoshop, added a layer underneath the item cutout and filled it with FFFF00 paint. I then put these back in Illustrator and figured the added yellow-match would blend seamlessly with the Illustrator background. Nope. Same problem. It looks clean and fine on screen, but when I printed it, a funky lighter/paler yellow surrounds the bar items.

I'm still sorta new to Illustrator, so maybe this is a simple fix, but I'm stumped. What gives, and how can I fix it?

 

i would do a the magic wand mask...

takes a few minutes to do per item but you can really clean up objects really good...

 

anyone else?
i'm wondering if there's a quick fix.

plus i don't know yet how to fool around with the magic wand in illustrator

 

i'm familiair on PS and my preferred one, PAINT SHOP PRO. but they all act the same.

play with the settings for the magic wand such as threshold and that will do everything that.. well, i needed...

never used illustrator...

 

try going back into photoshop with a transparent back ground and save it as a GIF.

 

good thought, but that won't work because i need the images to be hi-res and look perfect. they're going to print and the package needs to look clean.

 

Are your documents in the same color mode? Meaning both RGB - and RGB not CMYK?

John

 

the photoshop file i made the item cutout in and the illustrator file i put that cutout in are both in RGB mode.


weird...this problem has been happening at work. i just printed it at home, an it came out fine, the background yellow is uniform throughout. i guess that would make it the problem of the inkjet printer at work, but that's strange it'll print correctly except just around the item pictures