Photoshop supports Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) on Windows platforms. This means that you can either link or embed a Photoshop file in what’s called an OLE container application. Microsoft Word and Adobe PageMaker are OLE applications. If you link the Photoshop file in the OLE application, it links, or refers, to the file on the hard drive or other media; it doesn’t save the Photoshop file with the OLE application file. If you embed the file, it inserts and saves the file in the OLE application file.
To link or embed an image, you can copy a selection in Photoshop, and then use the Paste Special command to paste it in your Word document. The selection is embedded, not linked. Or you can choose the Insert Object command to insert a Photoshop file as an OLE-embedded or OLE-linked object. The useful thing about using the OLE method is that if you double-click the linked or embedded image in your Word document, Photoshop automatically launches and opens the image for editing purposes. After you complete the editing, just close the file if it’s embedded, or save and close the file if it is linked. Your file is updated in the Word document. Note that you can also modify the linked file directly in Photoshop without going through Word. The linked image will be updated the next time you open the document in Word.
If you don’t want to mess around with all this OLE business, you can just save the Photoshop file in a file format that Word will accept and choose Insert➪Picture➪From File. Word accepts the following Photoshop file formats: TIFF, EPS, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PCX, and BMP file formats. I would keep it simple and use TIFF. It’s a good overall format for printing images.
To link or embed an image, you can copy a selection in Photoshop, and then use the Paste Special command to paste it in your Word document. The selection is embedded, not linked. Or you can choose the Insert Object command to insert a Photoshop file as an OLE-embedded or OLE-linked object. The useful thing about using the OLE method is that if you double-click the linked or embedded image in your Word document, Photoshop automatically launches and opens the image for editing purposes. After you complete the editing, just close the file if it’s embedded, or save and close the file if it is linked. Your file is updated in the Word document. Note that you can also modify the linked file directly in Photoshop without going through Word. The linked image will be updated the next time you open the document in Word.
If you don’t want to mess around with all this OLE business, you can just save the Photoshop file in a file format that Word will accept and choose Insert➪Picture➪From File. Word accepts the following Photoshop file formats: TIFF, EPS, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PCX, and BMP file formats. I would keep it simple and use TIFF. It’s a good overall format for printing images.
Photoshop with Microsoft Word
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