Put Adobe Illustrator artwork into Photoshop
- To export the illustration so that Photoshop can open it, choose File > Export. In the Export dialog box, choose Photoshop for File Format, and click OK. The file is ready to open in Photoshop.
- To change the preferences so that you can copy the illustration and paste it into Photoshop, choose Edit > Preferences > Files & Clipboard. In the Preferences dialog box, select AICB (No Transparency Support). Then select one of the AICB options, and click OK. You can now copy all or a portion of an illustration, switch to Photoshop, and paste it into a Photoshop image.
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Put Adobe Illustrator® artwork into Photoshop.
You have two options for putting Adobe Illustrator art into Photoshop: exporting or copying. You can export an Adobe Illustrator file using the Photoshop file format. Exporting as a Photoshop file retains layers, masks, transparency, compound shapes, slices, image maps, and editable type where possible. If your Illustrator file contains elements that Photoshop does not support, Illustrator preserves the appearance of the artwork by merging the layers or by rasterizing the artwork. Photoshop can open a file exported as a PSD file as it would any file created directly in Photoshop.
If you set the clipboard preferences in Illustrator to copy as PDF and AICB, you can copy your artwork in Illustrator and paste it directly into a Photoshop file. The AICB option lets you choose to preserve the appearance of the artwork or to copy the selection as a set of paths.
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