Everyone in this video we're gonna look at images. Uh, we're gonna look at the ones that are linked  and some of the issues that happen with those  and the ones that are embedded and some of the pros  and cons for those, plus some shortcuts to get  to both handy stuff. Alright, uh, let's jump in right from you. Exercise files, open up image tricks. And you will probably get narrower. Where is it?

There is there. It says, Hey, come find a linked image. So we probably know what linked images are. They're images that are in Illustrator files,  but they're linked to your hard drive somewhere. They're not actually embedded inside of the file. They don't come along with it.

So what I have on purpose made this not work. So we can do a couple of things, we can replace it, okay? Or we can go to ignore. Let's go to ignore. In case you've already gone that far, it's kind  of got a tempting preview,  you're like, oh, it's kind of there. Okay?

But it's low res and it's not gonna print very well. So what we are gonna do is we're gonna open up our links  folder, go to window, go to links, okay? And we are gonna start by re linking it. You can see broken, it's red. Okay? So with it selected, we can go down the bottom here.

Okay? Relink from CC Libraries. That's not what we want. We just wanna relink it, okay? And we're gonna go to our exercise files  and there's a folder called images. Okay?

And we can relink it. What I've done is I've changed the name of the file, okay? I was looking for something called bike zero. But you can actually relink to something else. Like I've called a bike a, just to make it not work  because I wanted this, uh, to demo this, okay? But you might just find it somewhere else.

Often I'll send a file to a friend or a colleague  and I'll forget to send the images, okay? And they'll be like, Hey, where are they? And you email 'em to them and then they need to relink them. Okay? But you can link them back up. If you don't have the image, uh,  and the link is broken,  you're gonna have to go and try and find it.

There's no like, magic way of getting it back. Now, linked images, why we have linked images  and not embedded by default is  that the file size can get really big  if they're all embedded. So the file size gets big, the machine gets a bit slow. Illustrator feels like it works faster if they're linked,  um, I find sometimes it's easier just to embed them all  and do away with trying to keep the link. So with it selected over here, you can say,  you my friend are embedded. Okay?

And now that link is broken, okay? Now if I send that file, it is no longer linked. Okay? This thing here, it show, it shows me where it used  to come from, which is weird, okay? But it's embedded file. Now it is actually part of this document.

Let's bring in multiple documents  and you get a bonus tip here. So if you go file place, command shift P  or control shift P on a pc, okay? And in your images, grab all of these bikes,  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and we can turn the link off. Let's leave it on for the moment. So that's one way of saying if you turn that off,  they will be embedded in part of the file. Okay?

Let's leave it on for the moment. If you can't see this, there'll be a show options. Okay? That might be something you need to do. I'm gonna bring in all of these. What you'll see is, can you see my cursor?

When you bring in multiple images, it has, you know, one  of six what you can do before you put them in. You can use your left and right arrows  to kind of like decide. All right, I want one then. And then the next one is actually this one. And then can you see I'm just toggling  through, I'm kind of making it up. Okay?

But you can bring them in in different orders  depending on what you need,  which you can do in the links panel. Select this one, hold shift, grab the last one  and just un embed them all in one big  Go for undo that. And they're all linked again, say you do need  to just find them where they are on your hard drive. Are they buried in a Dropbox folder or somewhere else? You can now click on them and go up to here  and you can go, uh, show on finder. Actually, I'm gonna go open my PC  and see if that works on there too.

Wait there. Yep, it does. It says, uh, show in explorer  and it should take you to the file,  uh, the folder where it is. Okay? So that can be handy too. Alright.

And the last super secret, uh,  trick is when you are bringing in images. So I'm gonna just delete all these. Um, I think I've shown you this  before, but let's do it again. I often just drag images straight in from my finder, um,  or explorer, straight into illustrator. That's how I get them in. I just dump them all in.

Okay? But by default they come in as linked files, okay? But what you do is when you're dragging them in, okay,  can you see this little plus hold  shift while you drag it in? And you'll see they'll go in as embedded file. Come on. There you go.

That is, uh,  embedded images versus linked files  and all the kind of yeah, handy things  to know about that and images. Alright, that is it. I'll see you in the next video.