Step 2: Open Photoshop File in Illustrator So for reference you’ll note on the example image below that our logo has been designed using all type tool elements so each layer is a form of text which is technically a vector.Īnyway with that disclaimer out of the way let’s move on! The method will still ‘technically’ work since you can of course save the document as whatever you like, however if any layers or elements within the design are rasterised in any way then they will not be ‘infinitely scalable’ like a vector-based object and therefor you could find issues if sending a design to print etc. If your design has been rasterised, flattened, merged or in any way been configured so that if you were to scale up any element it would start to pixelate then this method will not work properly and void what you’re trying to achieve. The main thing to note here is that your design MUST be all vector-based layers, by which I mean each element must have been created using the pen, shape or type (text) tool etc. It’s worth noting at this stage that if you don’t want any background on your design and just need the background to be transparent then ensure you don’t have a background colour etc and that the background is transparent (alike the example below where the background is the ‘checkerboard’ effect). Not to teach you to ‘suck eggs’ here but basically step one is as simple as saving your Photoshop document as you normally would as a.

For this example we’re going to use our company logo and show you how we converted it from a Photoshop document to an Illustrator document.

This situation usually occurs when a designer has created something within Photoshop but now needs it in a vector format for print etc such as. This is one of the most common questions we come across in graphic design – how do I convert a Photoshop PSD document to an Illustrator AI document? Well the answer is much simpler than you might expect and we’re just going to explain the 3 simple steps you need to take in order for your Photoshop document to be converted to Illustrator.

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