Photoshop Clipping Paths to Illustrator

When I make a clipping path in photoshop and save it as a .psd and then place it in Illustrator the bounding box of the path is the whole image and not just the bounding box of the path. How can I make it just the bounding box of the path? Export it a different way or what? Another computer does what I want to happen, but this one will not.

Only way is to crop your image in Phoshhsop
CMD click on path name
Image >> Crop
Save
Unfortunately the bounding box is defined in Photoshop and Illustrator >> link palette >> placement options will NOT help you. So don't waste your time there with this old, of little use placement options.

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Hi Peter,
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Can a preference be set in Indesign to automatically apply the photoshop clipping path to Tiff images?
Cheers Joe.

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Envirographics

> I saved a Photoshop EPS CYMK image with a clipping path.
It imports into Adobe
> InDesign CS, but not into Freehand. All I get is a white
box.
> I just read here that Freehand will not accept EPS
files. How else to get the
> PS clipping path file into a FH document?
FreeHand will import eps images but while ID can read the
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exported as pdf but placing is of course difficult.
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color. As memory serves FH support clipping paths in tiff files and
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layer mask is a grayscale image edges can be fathered and the
result is way better than with a clipping path. In fact some of the
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and feathered layer masks.
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would have looked awful but I just used more feathering in these
areas the result was in fact very good.
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Clipping path

The paste inside in Freehand is ingenious for me use, so the clipping path in Illustrator is much more inconvenient.. Takes longer time to do this operation because you have to watch out that none of the layers disappeares behind each other. But when I am making a .eps of the .ai file that includes Clipping path, Illustrator chrashes.. Is there any solution on this problem?

Clipping path
I need an .eps file so I can make a .tiff file in Photoshop, then I upload the tiff file in a system we have, so I can get the picture on our web page(the uploading system converts the file into a .jpg in different sizes)
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