HORRIBLE VECTOR PIXELATION

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February 27, 2019
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I have purchased this EPS file and my illustrator opens it as a horribly pixelated file. I have the Pixel Preview not checked. I have tried to open the file on its own and also to place it within a file. in both cases, the image does not work. I would like to know if there is a workaround. I don't see how it should open like this as my computer that I am working with is brand new (3 weeks old). I run illustrator and Photoshop without issue and can run both at the same time with no loss in function.

This is what it looks like:

This is what it should look like:

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carrie1009

Known Participant

ok, for anyone else finding this thread and having the same problem with shutterstock? on the page where you download (or redownload) your image, it will ask if you want to open it in the editor...say yes, open it, do nothing and choose to save it as a jpg. tada. spent hours searching on this one! 😃

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SillyLittleJJ

Participant

Saving it as a JPEG doesn't work if you want to customize the layers of the vector art. Good suggestion for a flat image if you are using it as is. If you only need the image (like many other stock photo repositories) I would just purchase the JPEG as it typically costs less than a vector image. My problem is that my EPS file looks great but when I go to open in Photoshop it is pixelated. Nobody seems to have a fix for this. If anyone has any tricks please let me know.

denise_O_o

Participating Frequently

I just got the same nasty pixelization and tried all of these suggestions to no avail. I saved the eps file from shutterstock as an ai and opening in Photoshop worked as it should.

MichaelStephens

Legend

I"m guessing that the file you downloaded from Shutterstock is an eps file and you've used File > Place to get it into Illustrator. In Edit > Preferences > File Handling & Clipboard, you likely have "Use low resolution proxy for linked EPS" files checked. If you place an image with this turned on you'll get the low resolution pixelated appearance for any eps files that are placed in a document. You can turn off this preference, but in order to work with the file you'll just need to open the file instead of placing it as Monika suggested.