Way to paste an Artwork in illustrator
Saikee (41 pencils) | Tue, 2007-11-27 23:33Its midnight and I am tired of trying to fix this problem, but no LUCK! I am sure the solution could be just a simple fix...your help please?
I have an image from Photoshop that I want to paste in a round box created in illustrator, the photoshop image is square. I cant get rid of the unwanted edges of the image..I like it to sit inside the round shape.
something like this i find so easy to do in Quark ( placing images in Type shapes etc) but I am stuck with Illustrator for this piece of work, and I use very little of illustrator.
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Clipping mask is what you need. Select both the bitmap and your round box and look under /Object/Clipping Mask...
And don't paste the image, Place it.
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Dirt and Rust
Thank you so much...its fixed!!! yippy
The clipping tip was right on!
If you have both documents open. It is MUCH better on your memory of you drag & drop vs. copy paste. When you copy paste an object, you are using RAM (and/or virtual memory) to store the file for multiple uses. When you drag & drop you are just moving the data of the file via your processor.
So if you have a monster .psd file and you copy paste. there is a good chance you'll see a hit on your machines performance.
I used Ps & Il as an example. But this is pretty much a universal thing.
Cheers,
-Jon
Is there a way to view both doc windows in Mac tiled, side by side like in PC's to help manage the drag and drop better?
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I get the tiled part. But I don't understand why you can't do that on a mac. Just make sure the window's on the mac (hmmm) aren't maxamized and you shoud be able to adjust the size to fit your needs by click dragging the bottom right corner of the window.
Let me know if this isn't the question your asking.
Cheers,
-Jon
Hi.
I'm currently working with one company logo and one idea is to use (circle) part of photo, vectorized with live trace. My question is that if I end up with this design, should there be done some editing/deleting of the rest of the photo, that dont show in the design anyway?
Or in any other case as well, is there anything concerning the leftover picture, outside clipping mask? Does it make filesize bigger etc.
Thanks
When in use, a clipping mask only hides items that fall outside of its borders. The hidden content is still there and can be made visible by disabling the mask. SInce any artwork that the mask hides is still there (just temporarily invisible) the mask doesn't actually get rid of the items that are positioned outside the mask's border. To do that you'll need to use the scissors, eraser and pen tools or the pathfinder palette to manually delete any items that you want permanently gone.
I'm sure this will change soon enough w/ Il. Just not sure when.
Cheers,
-Jon
If you trace the image, make it vector and then remove the placed raster image, you won't have to worry about any file bloat.
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Powerpoint is not a design application
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Dirt and Rust
Vectors have their purpose in design as well as rasters. Sometimes it's just not realistic to trace.
As a matter of fact I was creating an auto mailer last night that has a sick high res shot of the inside of a jaguar going across 1/3 of the page. I tired Photo high fidelity trace and it just looked ugly. Light can create such smooth gradients that Illustrator doesn't stand a chance of recreating them.
Cheers,
Yep. For a logo, vector is the perfect option and recommended. Of course a photo is better off left alone unless you absolutely have to vectorize it for logo purposes, screen printing for tshirts, or the like.
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Powerpoint is not a design application
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Dirt and Rust