Sorry but this is quite frustrating. Here's the scoop. I draw an image, scan it in, and outline it using Illustrator CS. The size is exactly 700 pixels by 600 BUT the image is bigger than the work area. I do this for future projects to get different camera veiws of the pic. I open it in Photoshop CS3 and what happens is it asks me what size I want to make it. So I tell it, 700 by 600. But it gives me the full image rather than what was selected in the outline of illustrator. But as far as I can tell it still puts it in at 700 by 600. Problem is, when you view the full pick it is pixelated. When you zoom in, it becomes either unpixelated (Making the viewable version of the pick far too big for what I need it for) or gets even more pixelated (making it uneditable).
So I also tried resizing the Illustrator image to inches rather than pixels. 4 x 5 inches to test. Open in photoshop and again it takes the whole outline and not just what I select in illustrator with the work area. And the same thing happenes. Now I also changed the resolution, the size in pixels and inches, and physically shrunk the images in both photoshop and illustrator.
My question is this. How do I make a 4 x 5 image outline in illustrator, open it up as a 4 x 5 image in Photoshop and not have it messed up to where I need to zoom in for the outline to be smooth lines? How do I make it the same size so when i put it on my site it is a 4 x 5 image with perfect smoothness that I see in illustrator? Without zooming in? There has got to be something I am missing and it is very frustrating
also, I noticed this too. No matter what the file dimensions I set in Illustrator it won't be the same in Photoshop, so when I save the image as a 2 by 2 inch, even though it says it is only 2 by 2 inches big, the resulting image is around 6 inches by 6 inches. Why is this? |
