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Placing images

Placing images - Illustrator Tutorial

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Placing images

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- [Instructor] Of course, there are going to be times when you're going to need images in your Illustrator files. Either as part of an illustration or as reference, or sometimes even for something to trace over, which is my favorite, I quite often produce my sketches, bring them in and work from there. So let's have a look at how we can place an image into Illustrator. What I'm going to do is use the place command, which is Shift + Cmd + P. That would be Shift + Ctrl P on Windows, or File and Place. So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to bring in this Photoshop file, leaves.psd. I'm going to make sure it's linked, and I'm going to leave show import options on. Although I don't think there will be any for this file, and indeed there are not. So the image comes in with the place cursor like so. You can either simply click or you can click and drag to place the file. I think I'll do the latter, so I'm just going to…

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