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Embedding images

Embedding images - Illustrator Tutorial

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Embedding images

- [Instructor] Having said that placing is the best way to bring things into Illustrator document, there may be occasions where you actually need to embed an image, and that might be for production reasons. So you might have to send the thing all flattened out with the images embedded. That's a frequent request. You might also want to use a nice trick, like the object mosaic that you can find in the objects menu here. You can see it's grayed out at the moment. It's only available when an image is embedded. It's really easy to embed an image, however. What we can do is here, is click the big button up in the control strip and actually it's also now at the bottom of the properties panel here. And that will bring all of that information into the Illustrator file. Now I could run the object mosaic thing here, just in case you wanted to see it, but it's not going to be very exciting because it's a white logo with…

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