Pasting/Emdedding Object

[Carlton_Chin@adobeforums.com]

I have a basic question about objects pasted in to Illustrator v10.

You cut and paste an object from Photoshop v6 (e.g.: a grayscale 20% circle EPS) into Illustrator and it appears as a solid 100% black circle.

What I am wondering is:

A - Is the pasted object actually embedded into the Illustrator file or just linked?

B - Once placed in Illustrator, is it still an EPS or has it been converted to some other format? PICT? Or is it a screen representation?

C - Is it possible to screen the imported object to 20% black in Illustrator?

Normally, I would simply import the graphic already screened in Photoshop and just use the "Place" command. I have a client that imported a similar circular graphic in their Illustrator ad file in this manner (cut and paste) and insist that if works for them.

[Gary_Newman@adobeforums.com]

Assuming you're talking about a selection of pixels, when pasted into Illustrator, it's embedded. It's not EPS or PICT or anything else; it's an embedded image, a collection of pixels. You can screen back the image by going to Filter Colors - Adjust colors, or you can simulate it by changing its opacity - but that will affect its interaction with the background. Or you could put a white object in front of the image and change its opacity

[Carlton_Chin@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for the feedback. One other thought...

If the image is a "collection of pixels" embedded into the Illustrator file, does it retain the original dpi information from the Photoshop file it was pasted from?

[Gary_Newman@adobeforums.com]

Yes

[Carlton_Chin@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for responding.

I am still wondering about the resolution issue...

Hypothetically, if the original PSD image is 200 dpi at 100% and pasted into Illustrator, the image would still remain at 200 dpi at 100% in Illustrator, correct?

If I were to enlarge the size of the image in Illustrator by 200%, would that mean that the embedded image would now be 100 dpi?

Also, what about exporting the image as a TIFF via Illustrator?
Let us say I was using the embedded image at 200 dpi at 100% in Illustrator, and I export it as a TIFF. If I set the output resolution setting to 300 dpi, does Illustrator add extra new data and would it degrade the quality of the embedded image?

[Gary_Newman@adobeforums.com]

If you enlarge a 200 ppi image in Illustrator by 200%, the resolution would be halved - to100 ppi. It does not resample. But if you exported the original 200 ppi image as a 300 ppi TIFF image from Illustrator, it would be resampled, just as resampling the same 200 ppi image to 300 ppi does in Photoshop - except that Photoshop does a much more intelligent job of resampling. That's its job.

[Carlton_Chin@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for clarifying.