Yikes! Placed photo prints bad

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Oct 14, 2005
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I’ve tried everything with no success. Can someone help me get my resized photo into Illustrator? So that it’s clean and clear?

1. I take an untouched jpeg photo of about 2,300 x 1700 pixels and open in Photoshop.

2. I lasso a section about 900 x 1600 pixels and paste it into a new image with transparent background.

3. I try every possible resizing/resampling combination, trying to turn this into a small, approximately 2 x 3 inch image that I can put into an existing Illustrator document and print.

After I place it into the Illustrator document, it looks great on the screen, but prints fuzzy with artifacts (although the rest of the Illustrator document prints great).

Question: what settings can be used to resize this photo so that it will print clearly when placed into Illustrator? Or is my problem something completely different…

Thanks!

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yodel_dodel
Oct 14, 2005
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3. I try every possible resizing/resampling combination, trying to turn this into a small, approximately 2 x 3 inch image that I can put into an existing Illustrator document and print.

After I place it into the Illustrator document, it looks great on the screen, but prints fuzzy

I don’t know Illustrator, but I think the solution is

either put the large original picture into Illustrator, and then size it down within illustrator.

or make the illustrator picture so big tat it can accomodate the photo at full size, and then size the whole thing down when you print


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Tacit
Oct 14, 2005
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1. I take an untouched jpeg photo of about 2,300 x 1700 pixels and open in Photoshop.

2. I lasso a section about 900 x 1600 pixels and paste it into a new image with transparent background.

This is unnecessary. Make your lasso selection, open the Layers palette, double-click the background layer to turn it into a regular layer, then click the Add Layer Mask button on the bottom of the layers palette.

Generally speaking, in Photoshop, for anything you can imagine doing that uses copy/paste, there is a better and easier way to do it. The only thing you should ever use copy/paste for is copying from another program and pasting in Photoshop, or copying in Photoshop and pasting in another program.
3. I try every possible resizing/resampling combination, trying to turn this into a small, approximately 2 x 3 inch image that I can put into an existing Illustrator document and print.

When you make the image 2×3 inches, turn resampling OFF, or else you are throwing away pixels. When you resize to 2×3 inches, what resolution is the image?

After I place it into the Illustrator document, it looks great on the screen, but prints fuzzy with artifacts (although the rest of the Illustrator document prints great).

You are placing the image in Illustrator as what kind of file? How are you saving it? TIFF? EPS?

Question: what settings can be used to resize this photo so that it will print clearly when placed into Illustrator? Or is my problem something completely different…

It sounds like you may be saving the image as a JPEG or EPS.

JPEG uses "lossy" compression. It degrades the quality of the image. It was invented for situations where file size is critically important and image quality is not important. It should never be used unless you have a clear and specific reason why it has to be JPEG and no other file format will work.

If you are using EPS, you can not print the image on a non-PostScript printer. EPS stands for "encapsulated PostScript." It is a PostScript object and won’t print on a non-PostScript printer; all you’ll get is the low-res thumbnail.

I suggest using TIFF format.


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