Comments on: Take Vector Paths from Photoshop into Illustrator

By: Sophia

Sophia — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:17:10 +0000

thanks for this. I tried dragging from CS to CS3 and it didn’t work, so I used this tutorial. thanks a lot

By: Leanda Xavian

Leanda Xavian — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:20:58 +0000

Great. Another useful tip. Any ideas on how to get rid of the crop marks around the artboard once you’ve opened up in Illustrator? Really bugging me…

By: roni

roni — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:36:29 +0000

hey, thanks! it help me a lot….
how can I made the opposite direction -
I mean importing vectors from illustrator to photoshop and saving the vector shape as one of the Custom Shapes of the photoshop?

By: Luciola

Luciola — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:51:37 +0000

Very Interesting, thanks!

By: stuart cohen

stuart cohen — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:41:22 +0000

Hi Guys, am new to illustator. I have got a new programme called pro animator…brilliant!!! but only except vector paths in illustrator. so trying to get my head around it. my main question is…da,da,daaaa

I can easily create a vector path with teh already made symbold in PS….but when i try to make my own shapes and give it a vector path it just does not want to appear in illustrator even when I select all. i a know I am doing something wrong, just cant put my finger on it. Any tips would be very much appreaciated. Thanks.

By: Abhijit V. Chaore

Abhijit V. Chaore — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:15:44 +0000

nice tutorial…it is just a save as command for exporting the path…..so a simple one too…thanks…

By: matty

matty — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:06:27 +0000

thanks, this is exactly what i was looking for. this saved me a lot of time from having to draw a huge vector all over again.

By: Digital Street

Digital Street — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:46:04 +0000

Nice tip.
I didn’t know how to do it.

By: emdeekay

emdeekay — Fri, 18 May 2007 12:50:46 +0000

I’m an idiot. Forgot you can just open a psd file in illustrator and import the layers as objects. For those of you who were wondering how to do this same thing.. welp, there’s your answer haha.

By: emdeekay

emdeekay — Thu, 17 May 2007 21:45:07 +0000

If I have a complex vector drawing in photoshop, is there a way to export it all to illustrator? i.e. I’m vectorizing a photograph but for some reason I am doing it in photoshop. But now, for some reason, I’d like to bring all the shapes into illustrator and work on it from there. Is there an easy way to do this?

By: Hi-Res-Brushes

Hi-Res-Brushes — Wed, 02 May 2007 12:29:30 +0000

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By: Photoshop-Weblog » Hi-Res-Brushes

Photoshop-Weblog » Hi-Res-Brushes — Wed, 02 May 2007 11:49:39 +0000

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By: JaxFX

JaxFX — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:58:09 +0000

@BittBox - thanx a lot again man! (/woman! ;)

@ BBdesignCo & Arun:

(Basically the same BBdesignCo, cut a few corners ;)

1. Create blank transparent doc in PS
2. Select the Brush, single click to put it on the canvas
3. Ctrl+Click the layer thumbnail to select the brush-shape on the canvas
4. Goto the Paths palette and click the button (below) ‘Make work path from selection’
5. Press ‘A’ for the black-arrow and drag around the brush-shape to totally select it
6 Drag it to an Illustrator document

I wish all lots of creative flows! :)

By: 3vo

3vo — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:18:05 +0000

This is great, i have been wanting to do this for ages, thanks :)

By: DBdesignCo

DBdesignCo — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:48:11 +0000

Im sure there is many other ways as well………

By: DBdesignCo

DBdesignCo — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:47:21 +0000

Just realised that this was posted on my birthday…….hows about them apples….Oh yeah and this is for Arun…….the quickest way I found to creat work paths on brushes is to make a brush stroke on a blank sheet. (shift + W) Magic wand the backround. (Shift + command +I)Select invers. Go into your paths palette click the carrot and click make work path. Name your path. Click the carrot again and click clipping path. Make sue that ur path is highlighted in blue before you save it. And I suggest saving as a EPS if you plan on bringing it into illustrator. Then live trace from there. Save a new brush. And you should be set.

By: Arun

Arun — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:46:07 +0000

Is there a way to do the same thing with Photoshop brushes? Is there any quick, easy way to create a work path for brushes?

By: DBdesignCo

DBdesignCo — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:15:28 +0000

I had no idea…..glad i found out

By: Arun

Arun — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:20:21 +0000

Awesome! Thank you.

By: jez

jez — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:25:09 +0000

beautiful work, once again!
I am looking forward to using those in my future work, thanks a bunch!