chriscaldwell Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Hello! I have an image that I purchased and want to be able to use this on top of some text in a brochure. Can someone please tell me how to remove the background from the attached .eps image and still maintain the highlights in the magnifying glass so that I can lay this over text? When I bought the image, I assumed it was already transparent. Thank you so much! Chris [MOD EDIT, ATTACHMENTS REMOVED] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Affinity opens this in such a way that all the chequers are individual objects, where it fails is the lens on the magnifying glass. I opened the eps in Illustrator and I have deleted the background, I have saved it as an SVG because it maintains the layers structure and the document dimensions, it's also quite a bit smaller re file size This is with the background left in. [MOD EDIT, ATTACHMENTS REMOVED] Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 I would have thought that the best thing would have been to contact Vectorstock(?) and tell them that it is described as being on a transparent background, not a chequered one, and that is how you expect it to be supplied! As it is it's not as described, nor fit for purpose! v_kyr and Old Bruce 2 Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 3 hours ago, PaulEC said: and tell them that it is described as being on a transparent background, not a chequered one, and that is how you expect it to be supplied That's what I would expect here too, but sadly a bunch of EPS images there behave like this one for the OP here. - Can't tell though if Illustrator might be able to handle such EPS files differently, or if transparent background has to be taken literally here, thus if it is really meant then to be an image "including an explicite drawn checker board pattern" background. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henryanthony Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 If the checked background was intentional is it not reasonable to assume that it would appear enlarged under the magnifying glass? But, it seems it was intentional because how do you even save the checked transparency background as part of an image? A screen shot is all I can think of and that is not a good way to sell images. Quote Affinity Photo and Design V1. Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. Dell Precision 7710 laptop. Intel Core i7. RAM 32GB. NVIDIA Quadro M4000M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 8 hours ago, PaulEC said: I would have thought that the best thing would have been to contact Vectorstock(?) and tell them that it is described as being on a transparent background, not a chequered one, and that is how you expect it to be supplied! As it is it's not as described, nor fit for purpose! The file is not in error, it's the way Affinity opens it... From Illustrator: Layer 1 is the chequered background and as you can see it's easily turned off in Illustrator. Saving as an SVG from Illustrator kept the layer structure intact and Affinity opened it as per Illustrator. Affinity does not maintain the layer structure when opened as an EPS file, especially with regard to how it interprets the background within the lens. PaulEC 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 12 minutes ago, firstdefence said: Affinity does not maintain the layer structure when opened as an EPS file, especially with regard to how it interprets the background within the lens. It's probably not really an EPS file, but a .ai file in an EPS wrapper. Old Bruce and Dan C 2 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 8 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: It's probably not really an EPS file, but a .ai file in an EPS wrapper. Probably, exporting the EPS to PDF will do much the same as SVG and open the layers better, so PDF seems to be a better option for a file that is also EPS. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 I do believe that we* should all be working at moving away from creating, and using, EPS files. * Stock sites as well as graphic designers in general, not just users of Affinity software. Alfred, walt.farrell, markw and 1 other 4 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriscaldwell Posted February 15 Author Share Posted February 15 I just wanted to thank you all for commenting and especially to firstdefence for explaining how to remove the background. I always learn so much from you all. firstdefence and Dan C 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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