Adobe Photoshop

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Hi,

I finally got CS2 and I'm working on transferring some of my psp work to photoshop and/or illustrator.

Paint shop pro's save as function for psd does not save vector information. It exports the layers correctly but rasterizes them all. If I save the psp document as an emf file, I can open it with illustrator and all of my vectors are intact but I lose the gradients (have yet to figure out adding new gradients to illustrator but I will).

Now if I export from illustrator to photoshop, I get

and I can't figure out how to separate the paths, select them or even tell if they are still vectors.

Could anyone point me in the right direction. I figured ai files would open correctly in ps but that doesn't seem to be the case here. I would like to save some of these multilayered documents for use in psd and ai later down the road.

#2 (permalink)

I think that the compund paths are groups. You might try to ungroup them and see what you come up with. Since it is saying it is a "path", that part should be vector. Im not much help, but maybe it is a start! lol!

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Thanks, I'll give it a try and let you know how it works.

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They will remain rasterized - they're only named "path", but it's just a name, while the layer is (and will be) rasterized.

Open your file in Illustrator, select all the objects (ctrl+A) and copy them (ctrl+C).
Then switch to Photoshop and either create new file, or open any.
Paste into Photoshop - you'll see a dialog window, select "smart objects".
And you have your Illustrator vector artwork inserted into Photoshop (smart objects may include vector data).

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#5 (permalink)

Thank you Varelse!!