From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Working with Illustrator

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Share artwork using Libraries

Share artwork using Libraries

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Share artwork using Libraries

- [Instructor] As well as the methods we've looked at, we can also share assets between Photoshop and Illustrator and between other applications in the Creative Cloud using libraries. Here in Photoshop, I'm going to add my current image which has only one layer, so I can drag from the image itself or from the layer thumbnail to the library panel to make it into a library item and we see that it's identified as having originated in Photoshop. I'll switch to Illustrator where I will select my artwork by pressing Command or Control + A and then drag the artwork onto the library panel. So, I now have two items on my library panel and I could make a composition of these two. Since I'm currently in Illustrator, I'll come to the Photoshop library item and drag this onto my Illustrator artboard. I'll now come to the Object menu and choose Artboards, Fit to Selected Art. I'll send this to the back, Command + zero to fit in window and then I can position my abstract version on top of the…

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