Illustrator CS4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Chapter 22. Acquire Images

To produce the artwork shown above, we used editable type as a clipping path to partially mask a placed image (to learn about clipping masks, see Chapter 26). We also added a second type object and an object with a solid white fill.

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How images are acquired	281
Using the Open command	282
Using the Place command	283
Managing linked images	286
Dragging and dropping images into Illustrator	290

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If you want to incorporate a photo into your Illustrator design (say, layer type over a photo for a book jacket, poster, or product label) or you need to import an image for tracing, now you will ...