5 Things I learned about using Photoshop and Illustrator Together

5 Things I learned about using Photoshop and Illustrator Together

1. Make sure and build your artwork at 100 percent.
2. Build no-fill, no-stroke bounding boxes to make placing smart objects from Photoshop to Illustrator easier.
3. Smart objects from Illustrator embed into Photoshop as a vector file so you don’t loose the integrity of the resolution, even if you want to change sizes.
4. It’s better to edit your smart objects in Illustrator before placing them in Photoshop because they become embedded, not linked—so if you then edit it in Illustrator, it won’t update the source file.
5. If you do want to edit a smart object in Photoshop after placing it from Illustrator, double click the object in the layer panel and it will open in Illustrator. You can edit in Illustrator and save and it will update in Photoshop; however, the source file will not be updated.