Embedding images into your Illustrator documents

- [Instructor] Working with linked images is…a very smart way to work with files,…especially if they're changing.…But sometimes it is necessary for you…to embed the image data in your file.…And that does mean that the file size is going to increase,…if that is a concern, by the amount of data that's in it.…So sometimes, for example, if you're using a very big image,…very small in Illustrator, so big ordinarily,…but you've got it scaled down in Illustrator,…it might be an idea for you to go and create…a smaller version in Photoshop that reduces that size…and then replace the linked asset you've got there…with the smaller version.…

And that just makes sense in many cases.…So if I was going to send this to another provider,…for example, who didn't have Photoshop,…they just wanted the image data as part of the file,…that's when I'd need to embed it.…So I'm going to click on this file,…and embedding is pretty simple for things like JPEGs…and TIFFs and all of the things that don't have layers.…Photoshop does give you some additional options,…