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1. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
Mylenium Jan 11, 2012 11:41 PM (in response to NTC Ann)Probably a transparency flattening issue rooted in AI due to how you create the text. The white box simply appears to be the artboard. Have you simply considered properly opening the resulting AI/ PDF via the file dialog and choosing the pertinent options in the dialog? Also expand your appearance in AI and convert stuff to outliones. This may help...
Mylenium
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2. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
c.pfaffenbichler Jan 12, 2012 12:17 AM (in response to NTC Ann)You got the content in as a Smart Object?
If you doubleclick that and it opens in Illustrator are you sure there is no white object?
Could you post a screenshot of that?
And the image you posted does not seem to make your point clear at all as I can not make out the white box.
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3. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
Grant H Jan 12, 2012 5:35 AM (in response to NTC Ann)Ya, this is a workflow error, you must give a step by step for what you doing...
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4. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
NTC Ann Jan 12, 2012 6:10 AM (in response to Grant H)OK. The bottle on the L is what the bottle is supposed to look like.... minus the black box on the bottom. The L bottle is placed there in photoshop just to show what it is supposed to look like. Then the other layer had the bottle on the R or what is supposed to be the full bottle that I am trying to get my Eyelash Recovery text onto that one on that layer.
The bottle on the R is the problem. The white box is the entire area around the small area of the bottle being shown. Yes, trying to bring just the text Eyelash Recovery over from Illustrator = it created the white box all by itself. (Create Outlines did not help at all)
Note. I created the words Eyelash Recovery in text on a circle in Illustrator and then tried to drag and drop AND I tried to copy/paste into Illustrato = both ways. Both failed and created everything that is white around the R bottle that only shows the small area of the bottle. Anything around the small window of the bottle = which is actually a transparent area around the text Eyelash Recovery that allows the bottle on the L to show thru. So it came over as a small area of transparent window with the text in it (not centered as you can see) AND a white box around that window that I could not get rid of.
But then, for some reason, it then also wanted to created the black blox on bottom out of the clear blue = where that came from I do not know.
So I created the text Eyelash Recovery in Illustrator on the oval and placed it in position on the oval using the text on path tool. I then used the type > skew to get the text to bet straight up and down instead of curving into the oval. Then I tried 2 ways. 1 was to copy/paste into Photoshop on top of the bottle and the other was to drag and drop. It wanted to place it as pixels. So I allowed it to paste as pixels. And I allowed it to apply. In the layers palette however, it showed as a vector smart object = ???
Then I tried to rasterize that layer which now said it wanted to rasterize the smart object (which I did not 1. place OR 2. drag and drop as a smart object).
For some reason, instead of only coming over as the Eyelash Recovery text, it came over with just a small transparent window (which you can see on the L side above AND it created the rest as a white box around that that obliterated the rest of the image. Yes, I could move the Eyelash Recovery text and the transparent window around to show diff. parts of the bottle but only this amount as seen above. But I could not get rid of the white around the transparent window to see the bottle below in full and to place my Eyelash Recovery text.
Then on top of it... for some reason, when I rasterized that layer, it created the black box you see on the bottom of the image above and there was no way to get rid of either the white area OR the black box area at bottom
A mess?? Yes.
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5. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
c.pfaffenbichler Jan 12, 2012 6:24 AM (in response to NTC Ann)So I created the text Eyelash Recovery in Illustrator on the oval and placed it in position on the oval using the text on path tool. I then used the type > skew to get the text to bet straight up
Personally I would prefer an Envelope Distort or maybe even the 3D Effect.
Why do you not want the text as a Smart Object?
That way it might be possible to trouble-shoot the pdf.
Boilerplate-text:
Other than that are Photoshop and OS fully updated and have you performed the usual trouble-shooting routines (trashing prefs by keeping command-alt-shift/ctrl-alt-shift pressed while starting Photoshop, 3rd party plug-ins deactivation, system maintenance, font validation, etc.)?
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6. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
Grant H Jan 12, 2012 6:26 AM (in response to NTC Ann)ok, firstll i wouldnt approch this project the way you are doing it. I would type the name in PS but if need be create the text line in illy NO CURVE... just straight. In ps I would free transform/ warp the text to fit bottle...
that said... why not create a curve with the pen tool in illy and type on the path? Then although you have given a good explanation of what you are doing there are many steps not explained... I wonder if you can post a screenshot of the PS layers and Illy layers...?
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7. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
NTC Ann Jan 12, 2012 6:32 AM (in response to Grant H)The reason I used the text on the curve is that I have not and could not figure out how to do the text on a straight path and then use the 3D tool. I haven't figured that one out yet. I tried but all I got is my entire window a grey window only. And in the past when I've tried to put text on say a bottle or soda can... for some reason, it doesn't leave the text in the middle but puts it way off to the side. So I haven't figured that one out yet. I have yet to find a good tutorial to teach me how to do that yet at all.
I don't care if it goes as a Smart Object... it still did the same thing as above.
I don't know what Envelope Distort is or how to use it.
The screen shot is the image above... that's the screen shot. With the bottle as it should be on the L = that was on one layer and the problem bottle on the R = that was a different layer.
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8. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
c.pfaffenbichler Jan 12, 2012 6:40 AM (in response to NTC Ann)I cannot reproduce the issue, so if you want asssistence in solving it please post the screenshots of Photoshop and Illustrator with Layers Panels visible as Grant H asked you to.
I don't care if it goes as a Smart Object... it still did the same thing as above.
But once/if it works changing the text might be easier with a Smart Object.
And one could try trouble-shooting the pdf.
Does the ai contain anything except the ellipse with the text?
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9. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
Grant H Jan 12, 2012 6:41 AM (in response to NTC Ann)as you are a nwbie a screen shot of the layers will give us a good clue as to what may be the problem, from masks to adjustment layers and so on...
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10. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
NTC Ann Jan 12, 2012 6:50 AM (in response to c.pfaffenbichler)I did try with Smart Object = same results.
Layer with the bottle = bottom so that I can see the curve I need and the placement.
Sep. layer = curve and text.
Sending the screen shots as 3 sep. steps. so you can see all 3 layers exposed.
Ok I am trying. I've resized the screen shots to max 400 pixel wide, 72 dpi and file size smaller than 600K. I choose it and the upload button stays greyed out. Now what do I do? Thanks.
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11. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
c.pfaffenbichler Jan 12, 2012 6:52 AM (in response to NTC Ann)Try posting them in advanced mode (click »Use advanced editor« at the top of the entry field to the right).
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12. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
NTC Ann Jan 12, 2012 7:02 AM (in response to NTC Ann)I tried to make a pdf out of it and now I tried to place it and got an unexpected Adobe Forum error = ???
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13. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
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15. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
Grant H Jan 12, 2012 7:19 AM (in response to NTC Ann)hi ann... its impossible to make out whats happening in the layers panel... havent you got a screen capture app to grab a selection on screen?
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16. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
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17. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
NTC Ann Jan 12, 2012 7:34 AM (in response to NTC Ann)You know... is there an easier way to do what I am trying to do? I haven't figured out the 3D at all... I don't know what envelope distort is...
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18. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
c.pfaffenbichler Jan 12, 2012 7:38 AM (in response to NTC Ann)command-shift-4 allows to detremine the area to screenshot.
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19. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
c.pfaffenbichler Jan 12, 2012 7:43 AM (in response to NTC Ann)If the text is as short as in your example a simple Warp (Atch or Cuszom) might suffice.
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21. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
Grant H Jan 12, 2012 7:52 AM (in response to NTC Ann)post the AI layers too... G
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22. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
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23. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
NTC Ann Jan 12, 2012 8:21 AM (in response to NTC Ann)PS. the bottom layer is the bottle I brought over to try and make my text
the top layer is the text on oval layer = is text
When I drag over to Photoshop or do copy/paste, it goes in as pixels but once inside Photoshop = it says it is a smart object (that I rasterize)
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24. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
Grant H Jan 12, 2012 8:32 AM (in response to NTC Ann)ann open the layer two...
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25. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
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26. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
Grant H Jan 12, 2012 8:54 AM (in response to NTC Ann)doesnt really help..
you say you did try selecting the text in AI copied and pasted in PS...?
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27. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
NTC Ann Jan 12, 2012 9:02 AM (in response to Grant H)I selected the text on that one layer and did 1. dragged it over and 2. copy/pasted into Photoshop. It wanted to paste as pixels but when I went to rasterize, it said it was a smart object. The text was in the transparent window with white all around it which blocked the image of the bottle. I could move that window and text around in Photoshop but still, only that window part showed and the white blocked out the rest of the bottle. And after rasterizing, the black box covering the bottom of the image showed up. I could not delete either the white or the black at all.
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28. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
Grant H Jan 12, 2012 9:56 AM (in response to NTC Ann)can you dropbox those files... i think it will be easier...
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29. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
NTC Ann Jan 12, 2012 10:09 AM (in response to Grant H)Do you have a drop box and log in and password?
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30. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
Grant H Jan 12, 2012 10:12 AM (in response to NTC Ann)if you have dropbox upload the files into the public folder, then copy link and post here..
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31. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
NTC Ann Jan 12, 2012 10:15 AM (in response to Grant H)We don't have one. Is there an easier way to do what I am trying to do? Thanks. PS... thanks for all your attempts at helping.
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32. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
Grant H Jan 12, 2012 10:18 AM (in response to NTC Ann)or i can invite you to a folder.. but ill need your email
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33. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
NTC Ann Jan 12, 2012 10:22 AM (in response to Grant H)Grant, I appreciate it but I don't want to post my email... esp. after I left for a family emergency a couple of summers ago and came home to 704 spam messages. Someone had some how leaked my email. But I do appreciate your trying to help me. Thank you.
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34. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
Grant H Jan 12, 2012 10:24 AM (in response to NTC Ann)just join dropbox.. its quick and easy
www.dropbox.com
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35. Re: CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.
NTC Ann Jan 12, 2012 10:32 AM (in response to Grant H)I'll have to deal with this tomorrow.... thank you.