Direct Photoshop Editing of Embedded PDF Images

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June 24, 2026
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PDF files used in print production occasionally require image retouching.

Today, this can be done directly in Acrobat Pro: select the image, open it in Photoshop, make the necessary changes, save, and the image is automatically updated inside the PDF.

Why is the same simple workflow not available in Illustrator?

When a PDF is opened in Illustrator, raster images are already recognized and displayed as image objects. Yet there is no straightforward way to open the selected image in Photoshop, edit it, save it, and return to Illustrator.

As a result, users often have to switch to Acrobat to perform a task that seems like it should be possible directly inside Illustrator.

Please consider adding the same Photoshop round-trip editing workflow that already exists in Acrobat Pro.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Illustrator is not designed as a PDF editor. It can open them and has limited editing capabilities.

You can unembed the image and open the result in Photoshop.

It would be useful to have an Edit in Photoshop option, you may want to do a feature request here:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/

Anubhav M

Community Manager

Hello @.random..

Thanks for reaching out. The option to Edit Images in Photoshop is available when working with an Illustrator (AI) document. Kindly open the original document used to create the PDF, select the image you want to adjust/retouch using the option to edit in Photoshop from the toolbar and let us know how it goes.

Anubhav

.random..作成者

Inspiring

Thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately, this does not work in my case.

I am not working with the original AI document. I am working with a PDF file opened directly in Illustrator, which is a very common workflow in print production.

I am attaching a screenshot of the document. Due to copyright restrictions, I had to cover the client’s content with white rectangles.

In the screenshot you can see that:

the image object is selected,
Illustrator clearly recognizes it as an Image object,
the object appears in the Links panel,
however, the Edit Original button is disabled (greyed out).

This means there is currently no way to open the selected raster image in Photoshop directly from Illustrator, even though Acrobat Pro can perform exactly this operation on the same PDF.

My question is therefore not about AI documents. It is specifically about PDFs opened in Illustrator.

Why can Acrobat open and edit a raster image embedded in a PDF through Photoshop, while Illustrator cannot?

Thank you.

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