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There’s even a shortcut for placement (Cmd+Shift+P or Ctrl+Shift+P). Placing images in Illustrator is almost identical to how you do it in InDesign. But, it can place and link to image files like PSD, PNG, TIF, JPG, and more. That’s what Photoshop and other programs like it are for.

Placing and Updating Rasterįirst off, Illustrator is not meant to be a raster image editing program. In this article, I want to show you how Illustrator integrates raster content, and discover what we can and can’t do. While Illustrator is definitely stronger at dealing with vector, you can also import raster images you create elsewhere and make certain transformations to them without leaving Illustrator. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to create a postcard, website design, or whatever that required me to use both vector and raster elements. But as these tools have developed, there has been some cross-pollination of sorts. It’s been that way since the dawn of digital graphic time. In the graphics world, we all know that Illustrator = vector and Photoshop = raster.

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