Greetings to all enthusiasts and professionals !

I'm experiencing some problems with the warping capabilities of illustrator.

  Using the distort command : cmd + alt + c , i can't perform the distortion because illustrator says it can´t do it on embedded images. The problem is that we use many spot colors on our psd file and when i embed the image and warp it or distort it to a certain object, the spot colors merge to a cmyk file and that totally ruins my work of color separation for screen-printing.

Is there any way i can warp or distort embedded images or a way to go around this ?

i enclose an example...

Thanks in advance !

Luis Monteiro senior graphics designer @ decordecal - portugal

Recently I have been trying to warp an image using Adobe Illustrator CC2017, but I'm experiencing some problems. Using the distort command (cmd alt c) I can't perform the distortion. Illustrator says it can´t perform the function on embedded images.

An additional issue is that we use many spot colors in our Photoshop file and when we embed the image in Illustrator,then warp or distort it to a certain object, the spot colors get merged to a CMYK file and that totally ruins my work of color separation for screen-printing.

Is there a way to warp or distort embedded images, or a workaround for the automatic merge of spot colors?

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