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Export Photoshop paths to Illustrator

Export Photoshop paths to Illustrator

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Export Photoshop paths to Illustrator

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- [Instructor] If you have a vector paths in your Photoshop document, you can use those in Illustrator either by copying them or exporting them. I'll come to my Paths panel and we see that I have a saved path here. I can now activate that path, come to my Path selection tool, select it, Command + C to copy it, switch to Illustrator, paste it as a compound shape. An alternative approach would be to export the path and this might be preferable if you have several paths, because you can do all of them in one go. I'll just come to my Vector tools and choose my Polygon tool and up here, change its behavior to create a path and I'll create a polygon right there. I'll now save that path, come to the File menu, Export, Paths to Illustrator. And I can choose the paths individually or all paths and it's going to actually create an Illustrator document, which I'll then open, accepting these default options to create Artboards for a legacy Artboard, and it opens to a seemingly blank page, but if…

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