Graphics Programs Reference
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some of them would be inaccessible.
6.
Press the Escape key to hide the menu and leave the carrots image selected.
Note
Neither 1-bit images nor images that are either locked or hidden can be
unembedded.
Embedding and unembedding images
As was mentioned previously, if you choose not to link to an image when placing it, the
image is embedded in the Illustrator file. That means that the image data is stored within the
Illustrator document. You can choose to embed an image later, after placing and linking to it,
if you choose. Also, you might want to use embedded images outside of Illustrator or to edit
them in an image editing application like Photoshop. Illustrator allows you to unembed
images, which saves the embedded artwork to your file system as a PSD or TIFF file (you
can choose) and automatically links it to the Illustrator file. Next, you will embed an image in
the document.
1.
With the carrots image still selected, click the Embed button in the Control panel to
embed the image.
The link to the original carrot.jpg file is removed, and the image data is embedded in
the Illustrator document. Visually, you can tell the image is embedded because it no
longer has the X going through the middle of it (with the image selected and edges
showing [View > Show Edges]).
Note
Certain file formats, like PSD, show an Import Options dialog box when you
embed the image, allowing you to select placement options.
With an image embedded, you may realize that you need to make an edit to that image in a
program like Adobe Photoshop. You can just as easily unembed an image, which is what
you'll do next to the carrots image.
2.
With the carrots image still selected on the artboard, click the Unembed button in the
Control panel. You can also choose Unembed from the Links panel menu.
Note
