Lesson 14. Combining Illustrator Graphics and Photoshop Images

You can easily add an image created in an image-editing program to an Adobe Illustrator file. This is an effective method for seeing how a photograph looks incorporated with a line drawing or for trying out Illustrator special effects on bitmap images.

In this lesson, you'll learn how to do the following:

  • Differentiate between vector and bitmap graphics.

  • Place embedded Adobe Photoshop graphics in an Adobe Illustrator file.

  • Create a clipping mask from compound paths.

  • Make an opacity mask to display part of the image.

  • Sample color in a placed image.

  • Replace a placed image with another and ...

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