What about all that neat clip art that you have on your hard drive? How do you use those images when Photoshop won’t open the vector-based WMF and EMF clip art files? Here’s how you get clip art into Photoshop, quick and easy:
- Open a new document in Word (or a comparable word-processing program).
- Add the clip art. In Word, choose Insert→ Picture → Clip Art (or your word processor’s comparable command). Click directly on the artwork and drag the lower-right corner to resize it to the dimensions that you need in Photoshop. (The artwork comes into Photoshop at 300 ppi.)
- Choose Edit→Copy. The selected image is copied to the Clipboard (the computer’s memory) in Word.
- Switch to your Photoshop image.
- Choose Edit →Paste.
You have your clip art, ready to use in Photoshop! Use the Edit → Transform commands to scale, rotate, and otherwise fit the clip art into your design. (See the following figure.)
Copy vector artwork from Word and paste into Photoshop.