Using Photoshop and Illustrator with Skill

My Quick Tips and Tricks to Remember:

Using Photoshop and Illustrator together in your composition, can be a great skill, that can take your compositions to the next level. However, there are a few tricks you must master first. One thing that I always helps me to know where to use the correct program for the correct purpose. I always use photoshop for basically photos, images, filters, cropping. Basically anything time I am needing to manipulate an image or object. For Illustrator I personally find it easier to work with objects lines, freehand drawing and the pen tools. An easy tip to always remember is to always start out by creating the same size documents for both Photoshop and Illustrator artboards. Probably the biggest issue with using both programs is moving your object, image, or text artworks as vector or as a raster image. Easy trick to remember is that when copy and pasting or drag and dropping images from Illustrator to photoshop always gets rasterized. To move a vector artwork via formatting your file from Illustrator to Photoshop, just by exporting Photoshop PSD files. When transferring artworks from Illustrator to Photoshop use the “save as,” so not to override your Illustrator file, because this rasterizes hidden layers. Something to always remember is that you cannot drag and drop paths from Photoshop to Illustrator, but vic-versa it will work. Any changes that you make to your artwork in Illustrator will not effect your Photoshop file. And cool thing I learn today is that you can drag just a layer or selection from Photoshop to Illustrator...and you can apply filters to these layers or selections.