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Laura26119766ldij
Inspiring
November 4, 2024
Question

How do I enable or disable photoshop paths from applying to linked images in Illustrator?

  • November 4, 2024
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So, the internet says this isn't a thing every time I've looked, but I've discovered recently(ish? last couple months to a year maybe) that if I place an image that has a path in the paths panel in Photoshop, it will display in Illustrator with the path clipping my image. The only way I've been able to fix is to remove the path from the image in photoshop and re-save it.

Is there a setting somewhere in Illustrator now that lets you enable or disable the clipping path like InDesign does? Is this a bug now? This never used to be an issue, Illustrator just used to ignore the paths in linked files. I've done a decent amount of searching and haven't seen the answer.

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Kurt Gold
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 4, 2024

Are you talking about .psd files?

 

If so, can you share one that contains a path?

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 4, 2024

When you embed the image in Illustrator you can pull everything apart. But then it's no longer linked.

Laura26119766ldij
Inspiring
November 4, 2024

I see. That's probably not going to help as we do link our supporting materials, and I could see this causing issues on a larger file slowing the AI doc down.

There's no way to control from AI for a linked file? It seems like that's a pretty big oversight if they're now just going to apply paths by default with no way to address.