Importing Clipping Paths

[Eraser Nubbin]

I've got some product photos in Photoshop masked with clipping paths and I've imported them into Illustrator. When I bring them over the backgrounds are masked but when I select the item the bounding box just has an 'X' through it. What I'm needing is access to the the original path once the file is imported into Illustrator. I've done it before so that the clipping path is visible in Illustrator, I just can't remember how for the life of me.
Thanks guys.

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[ylaenna]

If you mouse-over with the direct-select tool where you know the path is, you should be able to select sections of it to manipulate. Or maybe I'm not understanding your question. :\

[Eraser Nubbin]

Thats what I thought should happen to, but when I try and check out the path in outline mode all i see is the bounding box. I appologize, I'm not good at explaining things so I attached this file here.
A is how it looks in Illustrator when I hit control Y
B is how it normally looks in Illustrator
C is how it looks in Photoshop when I hide everything but the path, this is how I expected it to look in Illustrator in Control Y Mode



Thanks ylaenna


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[Eraser Nubbin]

Hey ylaenna,
In case your curious to edit the clipping path of an image imported from PS in AI it needs to be embeded first, that is where I went wrong.

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[ylaenna]

Hey, good to know! I missed your update with the attached image and only read it today. Late, as usual. :x Glad you found the culprit!

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[ylaenna]

But I was gonna suggest copying the path in Photoshop and pasting it into Illustrator. That would work too, except you'd have to manually place the path so it's in the right place over the image. Moot point, I guess. :)

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