Photoshop and Illustrator: Playing Nice Together

Photoshop is amazing of course, but Adobe Illustrator does some things much better. To expand our creative toolkit and the range of looks and styles we can achieve, we can combine Photoshop with its close cousin, Illustrator. By understanding the similarities and the differences of these powerhouse programs, we can take advantage of the strengths of both.

In this session we’ll look at why you would want to move your artwork back and forth between Photoshop and Illustrator and the different ways to do so: copying and pasting, embedding and linking, exporting, as well as sharing via Creative Cloud Libraries. In a series of mini projects, we’ll see how to efficiently harness the synergy between the pixels and vectors.

Whether you’re a graphic designer, an illustrator looking to add a more organic feel to your designs, or a photographer looking to combine your images with type, shapes, or patterns, this session has something for you.

Key takeaways:

• Moving artwork between Photoshop and Illustrator
• Understanding the properties of pixels and vectors, their strengths and limitations
• How Illustrator can be used to extend the capabilities of Photoshop (and vice versa)