Combining Illustrator Graphics and Photoshop Images
You can easily add a graphic created in a drawing program to an Adobe® Photoshop® file. This is an effective method for seeing how a line drawing looks applied to a photograph or for trying out Photoshop special effects on vector art. You can also export the resulting artwork for use in other graphics programs.
This lesson shows you how to do the following:
• Differentiate between bitmap and vector graphics.
• Place an Adobe Illustrator® graphic in an Adobe Photoshop file.
• Scale the placed graphic.
• Distort a graphic to match the perspective of a photograph.
• Apply different blending modes to a graphic.
• Use the Export Transparent Image wizard to prepare a Photoshop image for use in an Illustrator file.
Combining artwork
You can combine Photoshop artwork with art from other graphics applications in a variety of ways for a wide range of creative results.Sharing artwork between applications allows you tocombine line art with continuous-tone paintings and photographs. It also allows you to move between two types of computer graphics—bitmap images and vector graphics.
Bitmap vs. vector graphics
Adobe Photoshop uses bitmap images, also called raster images, which are based on a grid of pixels. In working with bitmap images, you edit groups of pixels rather than objects or shapes. Because bitmap graphics can represent subtle gradations of shade and color, they are appropriate for continuous-tone images such as photographs or artwork created in painting programs. A disadvantage of bitmap graphics is that they lose definition and appear “jagged” when scaled up. Vector graphics,also called draw graphics,are made up of shapes based on mathematical expressions and are created in drawing applications. These graphics consist of clear, smooth lines that retain their crispness when scaled. They are appropriate for illustrations, type, and graphics such as logos that may be scaled to different sizes
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