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- [Voiceover] In this

movie, we'll take a look



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at how you place an image



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that includes transparency.



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So here I am looking

at an alternate version



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of that angry emoji inside

Photoshop by the way



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and so wherever we see

the checkerboard pattern



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those are transparent pixels.



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And so in this case, we're

looking at a PNG file



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but it just easily be a TIFF image



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or a layered PSD document.



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And wherever illustrator sees transparency



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inside of an image,



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it goes ahead and respects it.



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And so let's see what that looks like.



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Alright I'll go ahead and

switch back over to Illustrator



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and notice my nameplate layer is active.



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And so I'll go up to the file menu



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and choose the place command



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or you can place that keyboard shortcut



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of CTRL+Shift+P or

command+shift+P on the Mac



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and then I will find the

infuriated emoji right there.



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And I'll just go ahead and double click



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on him this time in order

to load up my cursor.



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Now click right about

there to replace my face



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with this illustration

and I might just go ahead



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and nudge it upward as well,



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and because we have that

dynamic transform effect



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assigned to that entire layer.



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Illustrator goes ahead

and repeats the emoji



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on each and every name plate.



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Alright I'll just go ahead and zoom in



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on this guy like so.



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And notice that wherever the image



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is transparent, we're seeing through



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to the photograph in the background.



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Now this can make stroking

a little tricky by the way.



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And so let's say I wanna stroke a border



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around the emoji's face.



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Then I would go the window menu



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and choose the appearance command



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to bring up the appearance panel



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and then I would click on

the add new stroke icon



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in the bottom left corner

of the appearance panel.



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And let's say I decided

to take this guy down



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to 0.5 points so just half a point



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but of course we're not seeing it



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because there's nothing

for illustrator to stroke.



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So what we'll need to do is make sure



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the stroke is selected



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then click on the fx icon



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down here on the bottom left corner.



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Choose convert to shape



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and then this time choose ellipse



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because after all, this

guy has a circular face.



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And then if you turn on

the preview checkbox,



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you can see that the stroke



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is way out here at this point.



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What we want to do is take the extra width



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and extra height values down



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and I came up with,

just by trial and error,



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a value of -29.5 points



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for each one of these values.



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And that pretty much nails it



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even though the stroke is a little bit low



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because there's a drop

shadow built in to the image.



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And so to fix that, we'll

go ahead and click okay



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and then I'll drop down

to the fx icon once again.



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Choose distort and transform



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and choose the transform command.



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And now I'll turn on the preview checkbox



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and then I'll click inside

the vertical move value



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and I'll press the down

arrow key a couple of times



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in order to take the vertical

value down to negative two



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which moves the stroke up two points



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which aligns the stroke

to the emoji's face.



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At which point I'll go

ahead and click okay



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to accept that change.



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Alright now, a couple of extra

things I wanna mention here,



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I'm gonna go ahead and

click the emoji over



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and click on my face in order to select it



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and that selects the

clipping mask by the way.



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And so to switch to the image,



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you wanna click on the second icon



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on the far left side of the control panel.



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The one that reads edit contents



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and then you're gonna see

the name of the linked file



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and you're gonna see two

important pieces of information.



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The second one is the resolution.



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So we now have 577 pixels per inch.



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And the reason we have

more pixels per inch



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than we did on the outset, you may recall



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when we first place this image,



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it had a resolution of 300ppi



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and the reason it has more pixels now



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is because I reduced its size.



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So by scaling the image to 52%,



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I packed a lot more

pixels into a smaller area



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and that's why we have

a higher resolution.



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That is not gonna hurt a darn thing



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and for printing purposes by the way,



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anything more than 220 pixels per inch



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is gonna look good.



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Anything higher than 267

is gonna look terrific.



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Now this first item



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is the one that might worry people.



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Notice that this is an RGB image,



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now conventional wisdom tells us



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that if this image is bound for print



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especially if I were to

commercially reproduce



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the document then I

should convert the image



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to CMYK inside Photoshop



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before placing it into a CMYK document



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here inside Illustrator.



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In fact, that is in no way,

shape, or form necessary.



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Illustrator as well as

Photoshop and InDesign,



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all use the exact same color engine



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and its known as the

Adobe Color Engine or ACE.



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And so Illustrator is just as capable



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of converting photographic images



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from RGB to CMYK on the

fly as Photoshop is.



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The difference is, Illustrator

does so non-destructively



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whereas if you convert an image



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from RGB to CMYK in Photoshop,



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that's not just a destructive modification



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that's an extremely

destructive modification.



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So when in doubt, leave your images



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as RGB files when you place them



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into either Illustrator or InDesign.



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And so that, friends, is

how you place an image



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that includes transparency



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as well as how you keep your photographs



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in the RGB color space

here inside Illustrator.