Halftone Vector Image Losing Quality in Photoshop ; From sharp dots to pixelated dots

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July 29, 2024
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Hello ,

I am having a weird issue with bringing in a scaled down halftone vector from illustrator to photoshop and cant seem to figure out why I am losing resolution. I scale down the vector's strokes and effects down to 4 inches and then I drag into photo shop ( ive also exported as .svg and imported as well and same issue) . Maybe someone else had ran into this issue before? I would understand halftone dots being pixelated because for print, 4 inches and these dots would be very small to the eye, but the lines are even pixelated. I cant seem to find an answer anywhere online.

Here is the vector already scaled down in illustrator.

Here is the same scaled vector imported into photoshop

Both are zoomed into 600%. If anyone would have any insight, I would appreciate it!

- John

macOS

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c.pfaffenbichler

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Photoshop is a pixel oriented image editing application; even Vector Smart Objects and Shape Layers will be represented as pixels on screen – and at 600% magnification the effect should not be surprising.

Vector Smart Objects will output as pixels, Shape Layers and Type Layers can be output as vector/font data in certain file formats (eps, pdf) but if vector output is the goal you might just want to stick with Illustrator.