Recently I have been trying to _warp_ an image using Adobe Illustrator CC2017, but I'm experiencing some problems. Using the distort command (<kbd>cmd</kbd> <kbd>alt</kbd> <kbd>c</kbd>) 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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