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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS2

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Pasting Adobe Illustrator art into Photoshop

You can copy art from Adobe Illustrator and paste it into a Photoshop document. The copy-and-paste behavior can

be specified:

• To automaticallyrasterize theart when pastingitintoaPhotoshopdocument, turn offthe PDFand theAICB(No

Transparency Support) options in the File Handling & Clipboard preferences of Adobe Illustrator.

• To paste the art as a Smart Object, rasterized image, path, or shape layer, turn on the PDF and the AICB (No Trans-

parency Support) options in the File Handling & Clipboard preferences of Adobe Illustrator.

See also

“Smart Objects” on page 427

To paste Adobe Illustrator art into Photoshop

Note: If you want to paste the Adobe Illustrator art as a Smart Object, path, or shape layer, make sure to turn on the

PDF and the AICB (No Transparency Support) options in the File Handling & Clipboard preferences of Adobe Illus-

trator.

1 Open a file in Adobe Illustrator, select the art you want to copy, and choose Edit > Copy.

2 In Photoshop, open the document that you want to paste the Adobe Illustrator art into and then choose Edit >

Paste.

Note: I

f the PDF and the AICB (No Transparency Support) options are turned off in the File Handling & Clipboard

preferences of Adobe Illustrator, the art is automatically rasterized as it’s pasted into the Photoshop document. You can

skip the rest of the steps in this procedure.

3 In the Paste dialog box, select how you want to paste the Adobe Illustrator art and then click OK:

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.

Pixels Pastes theart as pixels that canbescaled, transformed, or movedbeforeitisrasterizedand placed on itsown

layer in the Photoshop document.

Path Pastes the art as a path that can be edited with the pen tools, Path Selection tool, or Direct Selection tool. The

path is pasted into the layer that’s selected in the Layers palette.

Shape Layer Pastes the art as a new shape layer (a layer containing a path filled with the foreground color).

4 If you selected Smart Object or Pixels in the Paste dialog box, click Enter or Return to place the art.