How to drag image into illustrator
Illustrator Tutorial: Placing Images
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illustrator allows you to place objects
within your documents and it can support
a variety of file formats you can place
rasterized images like JPEGs and PNG s
and you can also do vector graphics like
other illustrator files and even PDFs
for this one I want to place these two
rasterized images this frog in this
tomato into my document to do this we'll
go into illustrator up to the file and
down to place this will bring up our
place dialog box this is where we can
find our files so there's my tomato and
if I scroll down there's my frog let's
do the frog first with frog selected I
can choose to either link it or not link
it or place it as a template I'm going
to keep those unchecked and simply hit
place and this will place a copy of my
image into whatever layer I had selected
once it's placed I can scale it rotate
it move it like any other object now
let's place the D tomato I'll go back to
file and place let's find the tomato
there it is this time I'm going to
choose link when I link the picture
instead of saving a copy of it into the
InDesign file it's going to require me
to have that that particular file image
saved along with it outside of my
document it's going to link to it so
when I hit place notice it's got an X
going through it now just like any other
file I can scale it down and move it
around
the thing about linked files is make
sure that this file is also saved
outside of this document so if I was to
go and move it let's say I moved it to
another folder it's no longer on my
desktop so I go here it's saying hey
some files are missing or been modified
would you like to update them well that
what it's doing is it's trying to find a
copy of my file so if I hit yes and
we're going to say we can't find it
we're going to
place it and this will bring up my
replace dialog box and it will ask me to
try to find it I believe I placed it
into this folder there it is there's my
tomato and we'll do replace and now it's
been replaced back onto here as well
placing linked files will give you
smaller illustrator files but embedding
the file will give you a larger file but
you don't have to always link it
together so there's a toss up here's an
final thing if you have a linked file so
for instance Maya tomato and I want to
embed it into here I can have it
selected at the very top of my tool
options choose embed this will embed a
copy of it and I no longer have to worry
about linking that file by itself
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