: "placed" Photoshop images in Illustrator - blurry when saved as .pdf? I've edited some images in Photoshop to be used in a .pdf I'm creating in Illustrator. In PS, the images looked great and

@Jennifer810

Change the image DPI to 300.I had the same problem, when viewed in illustrator it looks fine, but when printed the image was blurry. Try altering the DPI, and the image should be crisp and smooth.

I hope its work for you.

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@Hamm6457569

171x100 pixels gives you an image that is slightly more than 1/2 inch wide at 300 pixels per inch. I'm taking a guess that this is not the size you specified in the Illustrator document, which is why your output was pixellated, and when you worked in inches inside Photoshop you then got a correct result in Illustrator.

A 2 inch image at 300 ppi is 600 pixels wide (600/300 = 2). Any time you are sizing an image to place in a print layout, the important numbers are inches or cm at the output dpi. Unless you can do the arithmetic in your head easily and accurately, it's safest to work in linear units in Photoshop rather than pixels.

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@Bethany839

Turns out, I was right with my initial concern with the images placing so small within Illustrator. Working with the images in pixels in Photoshop didn't scale right in Illustrator; I remade the images in Photoshop using inches- problem solved.

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@Deb5748823

Try saving it a .psd file and then place it into Illustrator

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@Karen819

The image that you saved is jpg which is a raster based file. Illustrator is a vector program. So if you were to place a jpg within Illustrator it will be blurry because it is a rasterized image (pixelated). Save your image in Photoshop as a .tiff file and place it in Illustrator. That should solve your problem.

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