From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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Creating and placing a transparent image - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Creating and placing a transparent image
In this exercise we are going to take a collection of path outlines from Illustrator. We are going to copy them and paste them into Photoshop. We are going to make some pixel level modifications and save our work as a layer PSD file. Then we are going to place that PSD file with all of its transparency intact here in the Illustrator. I'm working inside a file called Unlikely dinosaur story.ai, found inside the 21_photoshop folder. And I don't know if you've read this text or not, but it's a story about how dinosaurs are going to wage this battle with teens from the future and these are them right there, flying through the sky. Now they're not terribly realistically rendered which is fine, but I would like them to be a little soft and a little bit glowly as well. That's something I can do in Illustrator, but it's not handled as efficiently or as elegantly as it is inside of Photoshop. So I prefer to take the objects over to Photoshop, make my changes there since Photoshop does a…
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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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