Copying and Pasting content with transparency from Photoshop into Illustrator

[Dr Missile]

I'm sure this has been discussed, but I wasn't able to find a solution.

Every time I copy pixel data with transparency from Photoshop into illustrator, it is filled with a white background. Is there any way to copy and paste into Illustrator without this happening?

For example, say I have a doodle done in Photoshop that I want to incorporate into an Illustrator layout. I select said layer the doodle lives on, hit ctrl/cmd-c, and then select my target document and hit ctrl/cmd-v. The exact visual information is transferred into the new layer with no noticeable changes. However, in illustrator, the transparent info would be lost, and replaced with white.

I know how to place files with transparency, but that's WAY slower and requires otherwise unnecessary file management.

Thanks in advance!

[Anna Lander]

no, sorry. Photoshop and Illustrator have different nature, you can't copy/paste the raster image with transparent. It will be "flatten" during the operation. You can only copy/paste vector objects - they will be added to your document like editable paths.

[Dr Missile]

Bummer. Thanks for the prompt answer tho.

[John Mensinger]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Dr+Missile  wrote

Bummer. Thanks for the prompt answer tho.

Hmm, that's not my experience at all.

Red-filled square on an otherwise transparent layer in Photoshop, marquee-selected thusly:

Copied and pasted atop a gray-filled rectangle on my Illustrator artboard:

[Monika Gause]

I think it depends on the versions of the apps.

[Dr Missile]

I'm guessing that is more of a bounding area issue of the copied content... if that shape were a circle, would you not see white pixels that fill the transparent areas?

[Ton Frederiks]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Dr+Missile  wrote

I'm guessing that is more of a bounding area issue of the copied content... if that shape were a circle, would you not see white pixels that fill the transparent areas?

No, if it contains transparent or semi transparent areas, they will be transparent when pasted into Illustrator

[Andreas Zac]

It seems that this works on mac but it doesn't on windows?

[jonj82928671]

did you find a solution ?
This is a painfull bug!