Combining Illustrator Graphics and Photoshop Images

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Tutorial. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 5.0. Back to Contents. Combining Illustrator Graphics and. Photoshop Images. You can easily add a graphic created …

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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 5.0
Back to Contents
Combining Illustrator Graphics and
Photoshop Images
You can easily add a graphic created
in a drawing program to an Adobe?
Photoshop?file. This is an effective
method for seeing how a line drawing
looks applied to a photograph or for
trying out Photoshop special effects on
vector art. You can also export the
resulting artwork for use in other
graphics programs.
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This lesson shows you how to do the following:
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Differentiate between bitmap and vector graphics.
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Place an Adobe Illustrator?graphic in an Adobe Photoshop file.
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Scale the placed graphic.
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Distort a graphic to match the perspective of a photograph.
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Apply different blending modes to a graphic.
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Use the Export Transparent Image wizard to prepare a Photoshop image for use in an
Illustrator file.
Combining artwork
You can combine Photoshop artwork with art from other graphics applications in a variety of ways
for a wide range of creative results. Sharing artwork between applications allows you to combine line
art with continuous-tone paintings and photographs. It also allows you to move between two types
of computer graphics-bitmap images and vector graphics.
Bitmap vs. vector graphics
Adobe Photoshop uses
bitmap images
, also called raster images, which are based on a grid of pixels.
In working with bitmap images, you edit groups of pixels rather than objects or shapes. Because
bitmap graphics can represent subtle gradations of shade and color, they are appropriate for
continuous-tone images such as photographs or artwork created in…