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December 12, 2021
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How do I Unembed PNG and JPEG images from Vector Files

  • December 12, 2021
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I have created an image in a vector file and i am trying to upload it to WIX but it says "A vector file cannot contain an embedded image like JPG or PNG" Does anyone know how to unembed the image.

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Correct answer Conrad_C

@jane-e 

WIX take the svg vector file and the requirements for the svg vector files are:

  • The files size has to be up to 250KB or lower.
  • The svg files cannot contain embedded images.

I will try your method of using illustrator to make the photoshop file a vector.

Do you know of any video that i can follow?


(Edit: Looks like I replied a few minutes after you already figured it out!)

 


@Ben222118415vy9 wrote:

I will try your method of using illustrator to make the photoshop file a vector.

Do you know of any video that i can follow?


 

You said in an earlier reply that you “vectored the design inside it” in Photoshop. What you should do next to get them into Illustrator depends on which tool mode you used to create the paths:

 

If you drew the vector shapes with the tools in Shape mode, then it should have worked to use File > Save a Copy and choose either Photoshop EPS (with Include Vector Data selected) or Photoshop PDF. For me, both brought over editable vector shapes with fills and strokes preserved. However, they included duplicate paths that I would probably remove before uploading as SVG to a website like Wix.

 

If you drew the vector shapes with the tools in Path mode, then they won’t export or print, so they simply won’t be there when the document is opened in Illustrator. (For EPS, the Include Vector Data option won’t be available.) If this is what you ran into, then the only option you have is jane-e’s second suggestions: Copy and paste the paths from Photoshop into Illustrator.

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mglush
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December 13, 2021

Does the file need to be a vector file? You can rasterize your image and save it as an .eps and it should work.

 

And if you created the vector file in Photoshop, can you select and delete the jpg or png?

Michelle

jane-e
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December 13, 2021

@mglush wrote:

Does the file need to be a vector file? You can rasterize your image and save it as an .eps and it should work.

 

Saving a raster file as EPS does not make it vector. If I had a dime for all the stories I've heard from folks who were told to get the vector version of the logo and thought they could get the jpeg from the website and save it as EPS, I'd be rich ! 😊

 

Jane

jane-e
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December 12, 2021

@Ben222118415vy9 

 

Did you create the vector file in Photoshop or in Illustrator? If you created it in Illustrator, which is vector at its core, then you can uncheck saving a PDF with the vector image when you save it.

 

What file format did you save it in?

 

~ Jane

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December 12, 2021

I used photoshop and had vectored the design inside it and saved it as an EPS.

D Fosse
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December 13, 2021

I'm not convinced Photoshop can save vector content at all, eps or not. Any testing I do here with eps, results in reopening as raster. Even reopening in Illustrator.

 

Paths are preserved in Photoshop, but as naked paths. Any fill, stroke etc is raster. In Illustrator all is raster.

 

Generally, anything involving vector should be saved out from Illustrator. Photoshop is not a vector application. The vector tools are mainly aids for selection/masking.