CS4 Problem getting text from Illustrator over to Photoshop.

Question

What a mess and why is  this so difficult. I finally figured out how to create my text on a curve and leave the letters going straight up and down. So I am trying to paste or drag and drop over to my bottle in Photoshop but what happens is that the text is in a clear area But then it creates a white box around that so I can't see my bottle. I have a lot of bottles I need to change the names on and no time to reshoot and knock them all out. Help please!!! I am going to try and attach images again but when I tried in  the Illustrator forum... the load button was greyed out.
Now on top of it, I am trying to create an image to attach... and it's doing even more crazy stuff. I created an image with the full bottle on L and what is supposed to be the full bottle on the R = only instead for some reason.... my text is coming over from Illustrator with an additional white box blocking most my bottle... then on top of it.... I tried to just type in what was going on and then if I rasterize the text OR I just try to save.... it created a new black box blocking the bottom 1/2... now what do I do??? This is really a mess!!!!

Answer 1

OK. The bottle on the L is what the bottle is supposed to look like.... minus the black box on the bottom. The L bottle is placed there in photoshop just to show what it is supposed to look like. Then the other layer had the bottle on the R or what is supposed to be the full bottle that I am trying to get my Eyelash Recovery text onto that one on that layer.
The bottle on the R is the problem. The white box is the entire area around the small area of the bottle being shown. Yes, trying to bring just the text Eyelash Recovery over from Illustrator = it created the white box all by itself. (Create Outlines did not help at all)
Note. I created the words Eyelash Recovery in text on a circle in Illustrator and then tried to drag and drop AND I tried to copy/paste into Illustrato = both ways. Both failed and created everything that is white around the R bottle that only shows the small area of the bottle. Anything around the small window of the bottle = which is actually a transparent area around the text Eyelash Recovery that allows the bottle on the L to show thru. So it came over as a small area of transparent window with the text in it (not centered as you can see) AND a white box around that window that I could not get rid of.
But then, for some reason, it then also wanted to created the black blox on bottom out of the clear blue = where that came from I do not know.
So I created the text Eyelash Recovery in Illustrator on the oval and placed it in position on the oval using the text on path tool. I then used the type > skew to get the text to bet straight up and down instead of curving into the oval. Then I tried 2 ways. 1 was to copy/paste into Photoshop on top of the bottle and the other was to drag and drop. It wanted to place it as pixels. So I allowed it to paste as pixels. And I allowed it to apply. In the layers palette however, it showed as a vector smart object = ???
Then I tried to rasterize that layer which now said it wanted to rasterize the smart object (which I did not 1. place OR 2. drag and drop as a smart object).
For some reason, instead of only coming over as the Eyelash Recovery text, it came over with just a small transparent window (which you can see on the L side above AND it created the rest as a white box around that that obliterated the rest of the image. Yes, I could move the Eyelash Recovery text and the transparent window around to show diff. parts of the bottle but only this amount as seen above. But I could not get rid of the white around the transparent window to see the bottle below in full and to place my Eyelash Recovery text.
Then on top of it... for some reason, when I rasterized that layer, it created the black box you see on the bottom of the image above and there was no way to get rid of either the white area OR the black box area at bottom
A mess?? Yes.