How To Save As Ai In Photoshop

I recently received a question from a reader who wanted to know if there was a way to take his Illustrator (.ai) file into Photoshop and still keep it fully editable. The simple answer is yes.

Many graphic artists start working in Illustrator and find themselves wanting to work with their files in Photoshop to run filters, add layer effects like embossing, drop shadows and more. For many, this means either copying and pasting until you wear-out your Control key, or past placing the Illustrator files into Photoshop. Either mode, it's tedious and creates a whole lot of piece of work to maintain file editability.

The simple, and painfully obvious, manner to do information technology is to consign your Illustrator file equally a Photoshop document. Hither's how you do it:

Take your carefully crafted Illustrator file with all its layers intact (remember to name those layers for easy editing afterward). As you can see in the sample paradigm beneath, I accept each of the three objects on its own layer, and the star layer has transparency applied to it as an overlay.

Go to File – > Export… and select Photoshop (.psd) from the format drib-downward menu and press OK. A dialog box volition open containing the export options. Since we desire to go on the file editable, we're going to click the Write Layers radio push. This volition tell Illustrator to maintain the layers you lot take set when exporting to the Photoshop format. But we can't stop there.

You lot also demand to click the Preserve Text Editability and Maximum Editablity checkboxes. This will not only keep your text fully editable, only also maintain any layer transparency you lot have set in Illustrator. I also highly recommend you to check the Anti-alias cheque box, and don't forget to set your resolution to High for print piece of work, or Screen for Web work.

Your Illustrator file is now a native, layered Photoshop file. Open up your newly exported file in Photoshop and you lot'll run into that the layers are named just equally they were in Illustrator, the text is editable and the layers maintain their transparency (meet image left).

While Photoshop's Smart Objects feature is a great mode to identify images into Photoshop, while still allowing you to edit them in Illustrator and have the changes automatically reflect in your Photoshop document, it still requires you to "build" your document over once more as far as size, placement and so forth. This simple method is perfect for Web designers who do their mockups in Illustrator before finishing the files and splicing images in Photoshop.

Creating a halftone-dot effect in Illustrator

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Yet another reader wanted to know how he could create a halftone-dot effect–which is quite easy to do in Photoshop–in Illustrator in order to keep it completely vector-based. He had to exercise this in club for it to work with his sign-making equipment.

Y'all tin find a simple-to-follow tutorial on this very topic, which will produce great vector results with only a piddling endeavour, like to the sample image on the left, on my blog.

[James Dempsey runs the Creative Guy web log, which offers tips, tricks and stance on a diversity of Mac OS 10 and blueprint topics.]

Source: https://www.macworld.com/article/187734/illustrator-into-photoshop.html

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