Importing photoshop images into illustrator - problem

[nzo]

I'm attempting to import (place) some 300dpi CMYK color Photoshop halftone images into an Illustrator (v10) DVD label project. My efforts so far have produced mediocre results - the quality of the imports are bad and ragged-looking, especially when resizing a larger image to a smaller size. The original Photoshop images are clean and crisp.

Are there any pros here who could walk me through a working solution, or point me to URLs that would help?

Thanks :: John

 

[tomatej]

Firstly, what you see on the screen in Illustrator is not how it will look when it prints. Also resizing of images is best to do in Photoshop where you have better control over it.
My practice is to create image bit bigger than I will need it, than I place it in Illustrator as a link and scale it down into exact size to fit it in composition. Next you look at the dimension in transform pallet and go back to photoshop to adjust the size. Than you just update link in Illustrator.
You can also simply use "rasterize" command in Illustrator and set the desired resolution this way, but you dont have that much controll over quality.
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[nzo]

Many thanks tomate

 

[blueark]

Also keep in mind that your image is probably 'linked' rather than 'embedded'. This means that, instead of inserting your image into the document, Illustrator puts a low-res preview image instead, and keeps a note of where the original is so it can be referred to when printing.

You can turn this behavior off in later versions of Illustrator by going to Preferences > Files & Clipboard... and turn off "Use Low Resolution Proxy for Linked EPS". Now you'll have nice high resolution images on screen.

 

[nzo]

Much appreciated blueark.