Single transparent colour to print on any paper colour

[LWTBP]

Hi,
This is my first post here and hope it isn't too difficult to understand in the way I explain it.

I have to create an invitation card that basically had the book that will be released at the event in the center (portrait size canvas) with two thick bars covering its top and bottom containing words that I have made to look like embossed or engraved ones using layer styles.

Now my superior wants it to be such that the singular colour bars are transparent so that it can be printed on coloured paper to save ink for that particular colour. I tried creating the whole PSD with a white background layer and adding the text on top with the layer effects (the inner glow of the text is 'multiply' while the drop shadow in white is 'overlay'. The text itself is black but set to 'soft light' so it's almost transparent and looks good no matter what background colour is set.

Also the thick bars on which the text reside have two dark gradients from the left and right to make it look 3Dish like a curved paper surface.

Now I thought (stupidly) that I could save it as a JPEG to after removing the background so that only transparent parts are visible but this doesn't work and the text is visible in the JPEG as simple black without the effects. What can I do?

 

[AbdulW87]

save it as a png

 

[peta62]

Hello,
how does it look like when you save it with white background ? Printers usually do not print anything where the picture is white, so it could solve the problem in case you have to have it in jpg.
Cheers,
Peter

 

[LWTBP]

save it as a png

It's PSv10 CS3 and I can't find the option to export or save as PNG.

Hello,
how does it look like when you save it with white background ? Printers usually do not print anything where the picture is white, so it could solve the problem in case you have to have it in jpg.
Cheers,
Peter

with Pink BG. with white BGand transparent BG.

I was wondering maybe knowing the paper colour might help but still don't know for sure if printers or any software have the option of changing the paper colour from white to something else.

 

[hawkeye]

Save ink?? First of all if you are going to print these yourself on an inkjet, it won't work. Inkjets don't have white ink, whites comes from the white paper. Plus colored paper would affect the color of the inks.

 

[peta62]

Save ink?? First of all if you are going to print these yourself on an inkjet, it won't work. Inkjets don't have white ink, whites comes from the white paper. Plus colored paper would affect the color of the inks.

I may miss something, but I thought this was the basic idea, to use the colour of the paper, that is why I wrote about white background, since it does not print. I have thought he tested different backgrounds in Photoshop, they worked for him, so he decided to print on papers of these colours to reach the same look.

 

[Savage]

Save ink?? First of all if you are going to print these yourself on an inkjet, it won't work. Inkjets don't have white ink, whites comes from the white paper. Plus colored paper would affect the color of the inks.

^100% correct. I used to run the big 50,000$ printers at officemax. That job sucked, but i learned a lot about paper and printing! I gave away so much free sh*t....