Integrating Photoshop and Illustrator

Ways to integrate Photoshop and Illustrator:

You can export Photoshop paths to Illustrator. Photoshop lacks some of the tools which can make dealing with paths easier. The pathfinder window, for example, can merge two separate paths in Illustrator. Doing this in Photoshop is difficult and can be frustrating.

Photoshop files can be dragged and dropped into Illustrator. This can also be done by using the Place feature under File in Illustrator.

A Photoshop file can be Placed as a smart object in Illustrator. Changes that you make to the Photoshop file will appear in Illustrator. However, the Photoshop file must be saved before the changes will update in the Illustrator file.

Work large – it is better to have a project that is large and can be scaled down to print than to design too small and have to enlarge later. For raster-based images, this can result in serious distortion.

Using actions in Photoshop can help save time and reduce human error when applying the same effects/filters/etc. to a batch of images.