From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Opening an image to embed it

Opening an image to embed it - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Opening an image to embed it

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- [Voiceover] Alright there's two ways to bring pixel based images into Illustrator. One is the open command, which we'll be looking at in this movie, and the other is the place command, which I'll show you in the next movie. So, here I am looking at a scanned image inside Photoshop, by the way. Just so we can inspect it. And I drew this cartoon just years and years and years ago using a rapidograph filled with black ink on a piece of white bond paper. So the original piece of artwork looks absolutely black against a white background. But I scanned it using a consumer grade office scanner, so it's looking gray on gray. And if we were to expect the image a little bit, you will see a few things wrong with it. Notice that we've got some gunk right here that must have been on the scanner glass. We've got color artifacting these purple edges and green edges around the lines. And then if you scroll down here to the bottom, you'll see that we have a water stain. You can see the edge of the…

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