Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book

15. Combining Illustrator CS5 Graphics with Other Adobe Applications

Lesson overview

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

• Differentiate between vector and bitmap graphics.

• Place linked and embedded Adobe^® Photoshop^® graphics in an Adobe Illustrator^® file.

• Create and edit a clipping mask.

• Create a clipping mask from compound paths.

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

• Sample color in a placed image.

• Replace a placed image with another, and update the document.

• Export a layered file to Adobe Photoshop.

This lesson takes approximately an hour to complete. If needed, remove the previous lesson folder from your hard disk and copy the Lesson15 folder onto it.

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