When coppying an Illustrator CS2 gradient into photoshop CS2

I am used to using the old Illustrator CS and older Photoshop CS versions, but when I switched to CS2 for my job, I found I could not easilly copy and paste graphics with gradients into a photoshop document as before. It copies over as just a white box instead of the gradient. It usually gives 4 ways of letting you copy them over. either as a shape layer, path etc. and none of these settings works. Is there something I am missing?
any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Michelle

Hi.
I just had the same issue with Illy and PS cs5, and this is what I discovered:
When you open a new document in Illustrator you get a dialog window asking you about the size of the document and so on. Under the option 'new document profile' you get options like: Print, Web, mobile & devices, and more.
If you choose web (or maybe some of the others too, im not sure. cause i just encountered this issue when using the web option), you get the issue with colored gradients turning greyscale/loosing color information.
This happens eventhough you are using the same rgb color space in both PS and ILLY.
My solution:
Copy the artwork in the ILLY file you want to paste into PS, and copy it into a new ILLY document with the 'new document profile' set for 'Print' and voila: now you can paste colored gradients into PS.
Hope this helps

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