Pixels will simply rasterize the vector shapes of the canvas. You can choose Shape Layer since Photoshop understands the vectors inside of InDesign and Illustrator. Now, when we paste the artwork from Illustrator, or InDesign by the way, you'll get this Paste dialog box which will ask you how you want to paste the contents. Let's come down and choose Edit and then Paste. Let's come back to our main composition in Photoshop. From the Edit menu, we'll come down and choose Copy. So what are we going to do here is with our Selection tool, we're going to select this vector shape. Put it in the background to demonstrate how this is transparent. I'll just quickly grab a rectangle, color it red. To demonstrate this, I'll grab the Rectangle tool. If I hit Command+Y, you can see all of these individual circles are set into a compound group with this outermost rectangle. Now, this is just a vector compound shape inside of Illustrator. Inside of the Exercise files, let's open up perforated_metal.ai. Inside of Banner, we just have a simple rectangle here, colored purple. So, let's close main content for the moment. We're going to put this inside of the Banner group. If you've worked on previous images or documents, you'll see them listed on the Home Screen as thumbnails.Now, we're going to create a Smart Object from an Illustrator file. When we launch Photoshop CC without opening an image, or if we close our document and have no other documents open, then Photoshop displays the Home Screen.
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To get the most from this tutorial, you'll want to be using the latest version of Photoshop, and you'll want to make sure that your copy is up to date.ĭownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! How to open an image from Photoshop's Home Screenįirst, let's look at how to open images using a recent addition to Photoshop known as the Home Screen. We'll also look at the important difference between opening a standard JPEG file and opening a photo that was captured in the raw format. In most cases, especially if you're a photographer, you'll want to start by opening an image, and that's what we'll be learning how to do here. And the other is to open an existing image. One is to create a new blank Photoshop document and then import images, graphics and other assets into it. There are actually two different ways to start working in Photoshop. So even if you've been using Photoshop for years, there's always something new to learn. And in the most recent versions of Photoshop, Adobe has added a new Home Screen that gives us even more ways to open images. But when you're dealing with a program as massive as Photoshop, even a simple task like opening an image can be less obvious than you'd expect. Opening images may sound like a no-brainer. This time, we'll learn how to open images from within Photoshop itself.
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In the first lesson in this series on Getting Images into Photoshop, we learned how to set Photoshop as our default image editor so we can open images directly from File Explorer in Windows or Finder on a Mac.
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