Photoshop to illustrator?

How can you (if it is possible) take an image that you worked on in photoshop and put it in to indesign without it looking crappy, pixelated and streaky?

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Note, what you are seeing in InDesign is a LOW REZ linked images. The image looks crappy because it is essentially a place holder. InDesign does this by default; all images (including both Photoshop and Illustrator images) are done as links. The reason for this is to keep the file size down. If you PLACED every image you were using in the InDesign document, you would end up with a HUGE unworkable file; depending on what else you had in the document (total size) you could end up with something that would crash because it is so big. So don't worry about it, the image is not messed up, it's just low res in appearance.

When you go to print, you want to use the Package function. This will place your InDesign file and copies of ALL linked files in the same folder so that the image files stay with the document and maintain their links.

Also you can export to PDF from within InDesign, and this process will properly embed the images into the document. You might want to experiment with this: create a small InDesign document with linked images, note that the quality appears poor. Then do an Export to PDF, close/quit the InDesign document (saving as needed). Open the PDF file and see what the images look like. They should be a lot better. Also try printing to check this.

Hope that helps.

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You can use Illustrator's tracing features to trace a bitmap image into a vector image. Once traced, you can scale that image up to any size you like.

It works best with drawn images (ie. cartoons, shapes with strong lines) rather than photographic images.