Import illustrator file in photoshop

[Zaif]

Hello all,

Here I made in illustrator as a volume with multiple colors and gradients complicated brief. during a copy paste into photoshop, I have several choices, paste as pixels that as a path. So if I paste as a pixel, the features not become very clear and if I do as a path, I have over my colors. is there a means to have the alignment vector and the colors?

[Abedin]

Have you tried to import. You save your image in photoshop and you import it from Illustrator. It should make you a layer with a vector object that you can rasterize.

"open" may perhaps also work. Give it try.

[Neel23]

hello,

Have you tried to export to tiff from illustrator, if your file is too large it should work, and PSD format should also do the work, Go to File - > Export… and select Photoshop (.psd) from the format drop-down menu and press OK And open it with photoshop.

[Raiz]

When you copy Illustrator artwork, you can paste it into Photoshop and retain many Illustrator features. To do so, however, you must properly configure Clipboard preferences in Illustrator.

To configure Clipboard preferences in Illustrator:

1. Choose Edit > Preferences > Files & Clipboard (Windows) or Illustrator > Preferences > Files & Clipboard (Mac OS X).
2. In the Clipboard section, select the desired format.
3. If you selected AICB, select either Preserve Paths or Preserve Appearance.
4. Click OK.

Paste options in Photoshop

When you use the Paste command to import copied Illustrator artwork, Photoshop provides the following options in the Paste dialog box:

• Paste as Smart Object: Pastes the art as a Vector Smart Object that can be scaled, transformed, or moved without degrading the image before it's placed into the Photoshop document. As the art is placed, its file data is embedded in the Photoshop document and the art is rasterized on a separate layer.
• Paste as Pixels: Pastes the copied artwork in a new layer and rasterizes it at the resolution of the Photoshop image. Use this option when pasting raster objects.

Note: When you use this option, clipping masks for raster images are not retained as paths. These masks still clip images, however.

• Paste as Path: Pastes the copied artwork as a work path.
• Paste as Shape Layer: Pastes the copied artwork in a new vector shape layer. Compound Illustrator shapes retain their attributes and remain editable. Multiple copied paths and clipping masks are pasted as multiple paths that use the unite attribute .

Note: When you use this option, pasted objects use the foreground color in Photoshop, not the fill color they use in Illustrator. Likewise, transparent objects become opaque.

More: Import Illustrator CS2-CS3 artwork into Photoshop CS2-CS3

[Nigel_123]

There are more simple.

Saves your file in Illustrator .Psd (export) and opens directly in Photoshop.

Normally it works fine, except that photoshop is a software "pixels", so you lose quality vector.

[Dwight]

Depending on the version of photoshop you have, if it is recent (cs2 or cs3?), you can also use dynamic object when pasting. It does not rasterizes you your figure immediately So you can take advantage of vector enlarge, diminish etc etc without quality loss and Then pick your illustration as a layout to recover. So you have a color picture and a separate track. That said, the final figure will end your "pixelated". Otherwise, do also check when you paste SMOOTHING
as pixels.