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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 5.0

Combining Illustrator Graphics and

Photoshop Images

You can easily add a graphic created

in a drawing program to an Adobe®

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with your own logo products and giveaways.

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We'll put your logo on any product. Our

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high quality, permanent full-color images.

Use your own design or work with our

professional graphics department to create

unique and personalized art. In a hurry? We'll ship

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product catalog and price list. Remember logo products

put your name out front.

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:

•

Differentiate between bitmap and vector graphics.

•

Place an Adobe Illustrator® graphic in an Adobe Photoshop ﬁle.

•

Scale the placed graphic.

•

Distort a graphic to match the perspective of a photograph.

•

Apply different blending modes to a graphic.

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

, 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 painting programs. A disad-

vantage of bitmap graphics is that they lose deﬁnition and appear “jagged” when scaled up.

bitmap images

, also called draw graphics, are made up of shapes based on mathematical expressions

and are created in drawing applications. These graphics consist of clear, smooth lines that retain

their crispness when scaled. They are appropriate for illustrations, type, and graphics such as logos

that may be scaled to different sizes.

Logo drawn as vector art

Logo rasterized as bitmap art

•

Adobe Photoshop uses

Vector graphics

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In deciding whether to use Photoshop or a vector graphics program such as Illustrator for creating

and combining graphics, consider both the elements of the image and how the image will be used.

In general, use Photoshop for images that have the soft lines of painted or photographic art and for

applying special effects to line art. Use Illustrator if you need to create art or type with clean lines

that will look good at any magniﬁcation. In most cases, you will also want to use Illustrator for

laying out a design, since Illustrator allows you more ﬂexibility in working with type and with

reselecting, moving, and altering images.

Project overview

To illustrate how you can combine vector art with bitmap images and work between applications,

this lesson steps you through the process of creating a composite image. In this lesson, you will add

a logo created in Adobe Illustrator to a photographic image in Adobe Photoshop and adjust the logo

so that it blends with the photo. You will then save the resulting image so that it can be brought back

into Illustrator for ﬁnal layout as a print advertisement.

Promote your business or build team spirit

with your own logo products and giveaways.

Personalize team caps and other sports gear.

Provide conference attendees with unique

notebooks. Choose from hundreds of products

including mugs, glassware, shirts, caps, windbreakers,

equipment bags, and novelty items. Or, select from an

premium line of executive gifts— suitable for business

associates and employee incentive programs.

We'll put your logo on any product. Our

advanced image transfer techniques assure

high quality, permanent full-color images.

Use your own design or work with our

professional graphics department to create

unique and personalized art. In a hurry? We'll ship

your order within 24 hours. Call today for a free full-color

product catalog and price list. Remember logo products

put your name out front.

Logo drawn in Illustrator

Logo applied to image

Final layout in Illustrator

in Photoshop

Getting started

Before beginning this lesson, delete the Adobe Photoshop Preferences ﬁle to restore the program’s

default settings. To delete the Preferences ﬁle in Windows®, exit Photoshop, and then delete the

Adobe Photoshop 5 Prefs ﬁle in the Adobe Photoshop Settings subdirectory inside the Photoshop5

directory. To delete the Preferences ﬁle in Mac® OS, quit Photoshop, locate the Adobe Photoshop 5

Prefs ﬁle in the Adobe Photoshop Settings folder inside the Adobe Photoshop 5.0 folder, drag the

ﬁle to the Trash, and choose Special > Empty Trash.

After you have deleted the Preferences ﬁle, restart the Photoshop program. Then open the ﬁnal

Photoshop image for this project to see how the adjustments you’ll make affect the ﬁnal artwork.

Choose File > Open. Locate and open the Training\Lesson04 folder in the Adobe Photoshop 5.0

application folder or on the tutorial CD. Then select end04.psd and click Open.

If you like, choose View > Zoom Out to make the image smaller, and leave it on your screen as

you work. If you don’t want to leave the image open, choose File > Close.

Now you’ll open the start ﬁle, the photographic image to which you will add a logo.

Choose File > Open. Locate and open the Lesson04 folder, select Start04.psd, and click Open.

Choose File > Save As, type the name

Work04.psd

, and click Save.

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Placing an Adobe Illustrator ﬁle

You can open an Adobe Illustrator ﬁle as a new Adobe Photoshop ﬁle, or you can use the Place or

Paste commands to add an Illustrator ﬁle into an existing Photoshop ﬁle. When you open, place, or

paste an Illustrator image, Photoshop

rasterizes

it so that it becomes a bitmap, or raster, image.

In this lesson, you will be using the Place command to add an Illustrator ﬁle to an existing

Photoshop image. The advantage of the Place command is that it allows you to scale the image while

it is still vector art, so that the scaling does not sacriﬁce image quality. With the Place command, a

graphic is not rasterized until you press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS). Alternatively, if you

were to cut and paste a graphic from Illustrator into Photoshop, the image would come in already

rasterized at the size it was in the Illustrator ﬁle. If you then scaled the graphic, it would lose

image quality.

Scaling

placed

Illustrator graphic Result

Scaling

pasted

Illustrator graphic Result

With the photo of the gift box open, choose File > Place. Select the ﬁle Logo.ai located in the

Lesson04 folder, and click Place. Notice that the logo appears with a bounding box around it and

that Photoshop automatically creates a new Logo.ai layer for the image in the Layers palette.

Hold down Shift, and drag a corner handle of the bounding box to scale the logo to ﬁt the gift

box. (Holding down Shift constrains the proportions of the logo.)

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Position the pointer outside the bounding box (the pointer turns into a curved arrow), and drag

to rotate the logo slightly counter-clockwise.

Scaling logo

Rotating logo

Repositioning logo

If necessary, position the pointer inside the bounding box so that you see a move pointer ( ), and

drag to reposition the logo so that it ﬁts within the borders of the box. Fine-tune with other rotation

or scaling adjustments; then press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS) to apply the changes and

rasterize the logo.

Distorting the graphic to match the photograph

Your next step is to distort the logo so that it appears to wrap around the top and front of the box.

To create this effect, you’ll cut the logo in half, place each half on its own layer, and then apply the

distortion to the logo’s top half.

With the Logo.ai layer active, select the polygon lasso tool ( ), and click the right front corner of

the box top. Drag to the next corner, click, and then continue dragging around the box top, clicking

at each corner. Complete the selection by crossing over the starting point.

Top half of box selected

Selection placed on new layer

Choose Layer > New > Layer Via Cut to cut the top half of the logo from the Logo.ai layer and

place it on its own layer. Notice that a new layer, Layer 1, has appeared in the Layers palette. To see

the artwork on the layer, turn off the other two layers by clicking the eye icon ( ) to the left of the

layers in the Layers palette. Click again to turn all layers back on.

Now you’re ready to distort the top of the logo.

Make sure that Layer 1 is active, and then choose Edit > Transform > Skew. A transformation

bounding box appears around the top half of the logo.

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