Professional services business card

[thunderstruck_302]

I have the Professional Services Business Card and would like to edit some of
the colours for the background. If you know what the Professional services
business card (available from the microsoft Office templates section) looks
like, then you will understand the following: I would like to change the
colours of the two large grey background designs to Blue and Marron. the left
one blue the right one marron and the center one preferably both of the
colours molded together. Can you help me out with this?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Well, I downloaded the card, that part of the design cannot be edited. When I
ungrouped the top layer, the large grey designs disappeared! I can reproduce the
images with the autoshape line tools, but I cannot apply transparency. I did the
copy/paste the newly drawn autoshape into a new publication, applied the new color
with transparency, copied/pasted back into the original, it lost the transparency.
If you want the look you are trying to produce, I'd draw the two grey areas with the
line tools using the grey areas as your guide, copy and paste into a new business
card setup and apply your colours.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Well, I downloaded the card, that part of the design cannot be
edited. When I ungrouped the top layer, the large grey designs
disappeared!

That repros here.

I can reproduce the images with the autoshape line
tools, but I cannot apply transparency.

This is because this publication is set up with spot colours, and spot
colour publications do not support transparency.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

| This is because this publication is set up with spot colours, and spot
| colour publications do not support transparency.

What do you mean?

 

[Ed Bennett]

What do you mean?

If you use Tools > Commercial Print Tools > Color Printing to set your
publication in any colourspace other than Composite RGB, transparency will
be disabled, as it is not supported.

When you make the conversion, Publisher warns that transparent fills will
become solid.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

I'm still using Pub 2000 and I know I'd had used it to produce (albeit
several years ago) a newletter(s) for commercial print using spot color of
varying degrees...so this confuses me.



| Rob Giordano (Crash) <[email protected]> was very
| recently heard to utter:
| > What do you mean?
|
| If you use Tools > Commercial Print Tools > Color Printing to set your
| publication in any colourspace other than Composite RGB, transparency will
| be disabled, as it is not supported.
|
| When you make the conversion, Publisher warns that transparent fills will
| become solid.
|
| --
| Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
|
|

 

[Ed Bennett]

I'm still using Pub 2000 and I know I'd had used it to produce (albeit
several years ago) a newletter(s) for commercial print using spot
color of varying degrees...so this confuses me.

Publisher 2000 doesn't support transparency anyway, so you don't miss it if
you produce a spot colour publication.

 

[thunderstruck_302]

I got it.... i used gimp 2.2 and edited the circles... the only part im not
happy with was the fact that I edited it in Gimp at aa low resolution then
made it bigger for the card so now, along the edges, you can see the pixels.