: When placing an Illustrator file in a Photoshop document, how do I get my artwork to be pixel-pefect? Setup: I have 4 Ai files which are going to be individually exported as PNGs. Some parts

@Holmes874

You have narrow pixelated lines which are mangled another time when placed into Photoshop, where the pixels probably do not fit and it's automatically resampled and antialiased. Probably quite disastrous to thin lines.

Many persons make the compositions in InDesign or Illustrator and import the needed photos, because their work needs may be very different than yours.If Photoshop fits to your workflow and processing needs best, then use it.

Remove one mangling phase and copy the shapes into the cipboard in Illustrator. Then paste them to Photoshop. You have several options to select from. As pixels makes it a bitmap image as soon as you have scaled it and press enter. Select Smart objent if you have to test different sizes and positions.

Options as Path and as Shape layer are not useful except if you need paths and want them to be drawn in Illustrator.

You can also place a full vector Ai file. It stays as vector shape and does not lose its high quality scalability until you rasterize it. You must rasterize it if you want to apply effects.

Have higher resolution in PS than you actually need. Downscaling at the end of the job is easy and you have reserve for quality degradations.

The absolute pixel perfectness is not quaranteed in the previous, only some less degradation.

Your last resort is open your pixel perfect PNG in Photoshop and add stuff to it, maybe increasing the canvas size, if needed. As long as you do not scale, the crispness of your PNG stays intact

NOTE: You must watch it using zoom = actual pixels. Otherwise there's nothing visible left of the possible pixel perfectness.

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