Photoshop to illustrator sizing problem

Question

Hello All,
This should be fairly simple, but I haven't had this problem before. I have a photo that I need to increase the size of the canvass and add a black vignette around,  then update this file in illustrator where it is placed. Every time I change the canvas size in photoshop and update in illustrator the photoshop image shrinks instead of getting bigger  (I have not changed the dpi or anything else except the canvas size). I've adjusted many images in photoshop and brought them into illustrator with no problem.  This is very strange....anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!
H

Answer 1

You can scale an image to whatever size you want in Illustrator. If you take an 8x10 image and scale it down 50%, no matter what you do with the image in photoshop, the graphic element in illustrator will stay as a 4x5 dimension. It's not often one would want the parameters they have designed in one piece of software to be affected by what they do to the elements in another piece of software!
Instead of simply updating the link to the image that is already placed in illustrator, you should place the image again (File-Place), and it will come in at 100% of it's (new) size,  same as any other image.