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Copying and pasting into Photoshop - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Copying and pasting into Photoshop
I am back in Illustrator, looking at the contents of the Big artboard.ai file found inside the 21_photoshop folder and in this exercise, we are going to turn off that rear items layer there in the layers panel. We are going to turn on the knot layer and we are going to go ahead and select this knot, copy it and then paste it into Photoshop and that will provide us with a world of additional creative options. So here's what I'd like you to do if you are working along with me. Go up to the View menu, choose Guides and choose Lock Guides to turn the command off. So we want the command off so that we can select that little guide that target guide in the center there. Then I want you to press Ctrl+A, or Command+A on the Mac, to select every visible object inside of this illustration, assuming, of course, that you turned off the rear items layer and you turned on the knot layer. Then go up to the Edit menu and choose the Copy command. Now, at this point, it's probably useful to review your…
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Illustrator needs Photoshop1m 1s
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Two ways to place a pixel-based image6m 6s
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Working with linked images6m 6s
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Linking versus embedding9m 38s
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Stroking and blending an image6m 16s
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Adding a clipping mask and page curl6m 51s
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Creating a blended border effect7m 10s
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Rasterizing your artwork in Photoshop8m
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Saving a flat raster file from Photoshop4m 58s
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Restoring cropped border elements5m 39s
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Copying and pasting into Photoshop6m 27s
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Working with Photoshop Smart Objects5m 26s
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Adding a pixel-based layer effect4m 12s
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Editing a Vector Smart Object in Illustrator7m 19s
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Creating and placing a transparent image7m 1s
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