From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Working with Illustrator

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Place a linked Illustrator file into Photoshop

Place a linked Illustrator file into Photoshop

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Place a linked Illustrator file into Photoshop

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- [Instructor] In my opinion, the best most streamlined way of getting your Illustrator artwork into your Photoshop composition is to place it as a linked file. You'll notice there are two options here, Place Embedded and Place Linked. When you Place Embedded, this workflow will work just fine, but when you edit the vector smart object it will open up a separate document from the original. So for that reason, I prefer to Place Linked, which will allow us to make a roundtrip edit to the original file. When I place the file I have these options to crop to. Typically I'll leave this a bounding box unless I see that there's going to be too much white space around the image. That's going to place the image to start with at the center of my canvas. I can now scale it. I'm going to scale it from its center point by holding down Option or Alt and move it. And then to commit, I'll either click on the tick or press Return. That creates a separate layer and you'll notice that it has this linking…

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