How to Bring Photoshop Files Into Illustrator

Photoshop and Illustrator documents work hand in hand for ease of use.

Photoshop and Illustrator are software components of Adobe Creative Suite. While Photoshop is a photo-manipulation software, Illustrator is a vector-based drawing program. There may be an occasion to import a photograph edited in Photoshop over to Illustrator to create further effects, or vice versa. Since these programs are integrated, the exchange of Photoshop files to Illustrator is a simple process.

Things You'll Need

• Adobe Creative Suite

Instructions

1. Boot up your computer. Go to "Start," select "All Programs," scroll down to "Illustrator" and click to start the program. Alternatively, locate "Illustrator" in your Mac's dock or in the "Applications" folder. Double-click to start the program.

2. Select the "File" menu in Illustrator's menu bar. Scroll down to "New" to open a new document.

3. Locate the icon of Photoshop document you wish to bring into Illustrator. Click on the icon and drag it onto the Illustrator document, then release the mouse or trackpad to place the file. Alternately, select "Place" from the Illustrator "File" menu and select the Photoshop document to import when the "Place" window opens.

References

• Adobe: Combining Illustrator Graphics and Photoshop Images