OPEN FILES

You can open files using the Open command and Open Recent command. You can also open files into Photoshop from Adobe Bridge. When opening certain files, such as camera raw and PDF, you specify settings and options in a dialog box before the files completely open in Photoshop. In addition to still images, Photoshop® CS3 Extended users can open and edit video and image sequence files. Photoshop uses plug in modules to open and import many file formats. If a file format does not appear in the Open dialog box or in the File > Import submenu, you may need to install the format’s plug in module. Sometimes Photoshop may not be able to determine the correct format for a file. This can happen, for example, because the file has been transferred between two operating systems. Sometimes a transfer between Mac OS and Windows can cause the file format to be mislabeled. In such cases, you must specify the correct format in which to open the file. You can retain (where possible) layers, masks, transparency, compound shapes, slices, image maps, and editable type when bringing your Illustrator art into Photoshop. In Illustrator, export the art in the Photoshop (PSD) file format. If your Illustrator art contains elements that Photoshop doesn’t support, the appearance of the artwork is preserved, but the layers are merged and the artwork is rasterized. Open PDF files Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is a versatile file format that can represent both vector and bitmap data. It has electronic document search and navigation features. PDF is the primary format for Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Acrobat. Some PDF files contain a single image, and others contain multiple pages and images. When you open a PDF file in Photoshop, you can choose which pages or images to open and specify rasterization options. You can also import PDF data using the Place command, the Paste command, and the drag-and-drop feature. The page or image is placed on a separate layer as a Smart Object. Open an EPS file Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) can represent both vector and bitmap data and is supported by virtually all graphic, illustration, and page-layout programs. Adobe applications that produce PostScript artwork include Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Dimensions, and Adobe Streamline. When you open an EPS file containing vector art, it is rasterized - the mathematically defined lines and curves of the vector artwork are converted into the pixels or bits of a bitmap image. You can also bring PostScript artwork into Photoshop using the Place command, the Paste command, and the drag-and-drop feature. Placing files The Place command adds a photo, art, or any Photoshop-supported file as a Smart Object to your document. Smart Objects can be scaled, positioned, skewed, rotated, or warped without degrading the image. To place, just open the Photoshop document that is the destination for the placed art or photo. Do one of the following: (Photoshop) Choose File > Place, select the file you want to place, and click Place. (Bridge) Select the file and choose File > Place > In Photoshop. Place PDF or Illustrator files in Photoshop When you place a PDF or Adobe Illustrator file, use the Place PDF dialog box to set options for placing the artwork. With the destination Photoshop document open, place a PDF or Adobe Illustrator file. Under Select in the Place PDF dialog box, select Page or Image, depending on what elements of the PDF document you want to import. If the PDF file has multiple pages or images, click the thumbnail of the page or file you want to place. Use the Thumbnail Size menu to adjust the thumbnail view in the preview window. The Fit Page option fits one thumbnail in the preview window. A scroll bar appears if there are multiple items. Under Options, choose from the Crop To menu to specify what part of the PDF or Illustrator (AI) document to include: Bounding Box Crops to the smallest rectangular region that includes all the text and graphics of the page. This option eliminates extraneous white space. Media Box Crops to the original size of the page. Crop Box Crops to the clipping region (crop margins) of the PDF file. Bleed Box Crops to the region specified in the PDF file for accommodating limitations inherent in production processes such as cutting, folding, and trimming. Trim Box Crops to the region specified for the intended finished size of the page. Art Box Crops to the region specified in the PDF file for placing the PDF data into another application. Click OK to close the Place PDF dialog box. If necessary, set any positioning, scaling, skewing, rotating, warping, or anti-aliasing options in the options bar. Click Committo place the artwork as a Smart Object on a new layer of the destination document. Paste Adobe Illustrator art (vector graphics) into Photoshop You can copy art from Adobe Illustrator and paste it into a Photoshop document. In Adobe Illustrator, specify preferences for the copy-and-paste behavior. To automatically rasterize the art when pasting it into a Photoshop document, turn off the PDF and the AICB (No Transparency Support) options in the File Handling & Clipboard preferences. To paste the art as a Smart Object, rasterized image, path, or shape layer, turn on the PDF and the AICB (No Transparency Support) options in the File Handling & Clipboard preferences. Open a file in Adobe Illustrator, select the art you want to copy, and choose Edit > Copy. In Photoshop, open the document that you want to paste the Adobe Illustrator art into and then choose Edit > Paste. If the PDF and the AICB (No Transparency Support) options are turned off in the File Handling & Clipboard preferences of Adobe Illustrator, the art is automatically rasterized as it’s pasted into the Photoshop document. You can skip the rest of the steps in this procedure. In the Paste dialog box, select how you want to paste the Adobe Illustrator art and then click OK: Smart Object Pastes the art as a Vector Smart Object that can be scaled, transformed, or moved without degrading the image. As the art is placed, its file data is embedded in the Photoshop document on a separate layer. Pixels Pastes the art as pixels that can be scaled, transformed, or moved before it is rasterized and placed on its own layer in the Photoshop document. Path Pastes the art as a path that can be edited with the pen tools, Path Selection tool, or Direct Selection tool. The path is pasted into the layer that’s selected in the Layers palette. Shape Layer Pastes the art as a new shape layer (a layer containing a path filled with the foreground color). If you selected Smart Object or Pixels in the Paste dialog box, make any transformations you wish, and then click Enter or Return to place the art. If you selected Smart Object or Pixels in the Paste dialog box, make any transformations you wish, and then click Enter or Return to place the art. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ABOUT BITMAP/RASTER IMAGES ABOUT VECTOR GRAPHICS OPEN FILES SAVING AND EXPORTING IMAGES