How can I get PageMaker layout or Illustrator shapes into PhotoShop?

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dglaser
Feb 3, 2004
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I do some ads in PageMaker and sometimes in Illustrator to get text on a curve, but the main reason is for the printing of vector shapes. Now I feel more comfortable working in PS and, with CS offering text on a curve, would like to do start doing the ads with their eps vector shapes in PS. But when I place or import, I get rasterized shapes out of the vector shapes.

How can I get eps vector shapes from Illustrator into PS? I have Illustrator 9 and PhotoShop CS.

Thanks for any help,

Dale
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Shank Williams
Feb 3, 2004
On 2 Feb 2004 18:47:50 -0800, (Dale Glaser) wrote:

I do some ads in PageMaker and sometimes in Illustrator to get text on a curve, but the main reason is for the printing of vector shapes. Now I feel more comfortable working in PS and, with CS offering text on a curve, would like to do start doing the ads with their eps vector shapes in PS. But when I place or import, I get rasterized shapes out of the vector shapes.

How can I get eps vector shapes from Illustrator into PS? I have Illustrator 9 and PhotoShop CS.

Thanks for any help,

Dale
Copy the path in Illustrator, then paste it into Photoshop, whereupon pasting options will be presented. Then make it a named path in the Paths pallette.
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tacitr
Feb 3, 2004
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I feel more comfortable working in PS and, with CS offering text on a curve, would like to do start doing the ads with their eps vector shapes in PS. But when I place or import, I get rasterized shapes out of the vector shapes.

Correct.

Photoshop is not a layout tool. As a professional prepress worker, please, I beg you, take the time to learn how to use the correct tools for hte job. It doesn’t take that much time to learn PageMaker and Illustrator–not if you’re doing this to make money.

Believe me, your life will be much, much, much easier if you start using a hammer instead of a screwdriver to drive nails. The time you invest in learning the proper tools will save you aggrevation and grief trying to use Photoshop for page layout.

How can I get eps vector shapes from Illustrator into PS? I have Illustrator 9 and PhotoShop CS.

If you copy a path in Illustrator, you can paste it as a Pen path in Photoshop. Bear in mind, though, that Photoshop vector shapes and paths can not be edited as flexibly as they can in a vector program like Illustrator, and you’re highly limited in what you can do with them. You will save yourself a lot of grief by doing this kind of work entirely in Illustrator.

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