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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
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The only Photoshop view that is meaningful is 100%, where 1:1 mapping between display pixel and image pixel is performed.
You mentioned the magic word - resolution.
What is the pixel width and height of the image? Or more importantly, how many pixels are used to create a single halftone dot?
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Why not Paste as a Shape? All the scaling could be done with vectors in Photoshop.
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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.