Placing a psd in illustrator

[DDxtreme95]

I remove the backgrounds from photos all the time in Photoshop and save it as a psd and place it in illustrator as a linked file but lately I have been having a small problem. I have been removing the background as I normally would and adding a outer glow to the layer style when I place the file as a linked file in illustrator the glow is not showing up actually if a edit the file after I have placed it and re-insert the background and update the link its still has no background in illustrator.

If I embedded the image in illustrator there is a clipping mask being created around the file once this is removed everything is fine my problem is I am losing my links back to the original files by doing this, any help on what is causing this would be great.

 

[apepp]

...the fact that you have a clipping mask after embedding the psd indicates you have a clipping path in photoshop that has been turned into a "true" clipping path via the paths palette in photoshop...

...remove the path from photoshop...

...or duplicate the path in the photoshop paths palette so it is no longer a "true" clipping mask, and then delete the original "true" clipping mask...

...a "true" clipping path in photoshop is indicated by the text being outlined in the paths palette...

...your problem points to photoshop, rather than illustrator, as normally if an embedded image contains a normal path in photoshop, that path is ignored by illustrator, photoshop clipping paths do however become active in illustrator when embedded or linked...

...you can re-link embedded images by way of the links palette flyout menu (top right arrow of palette, choose "Relink...") in illustrator...

Andrew