Chapter 28. Integrating Illustrator and Photoshop

Illustrator Versus Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is the premier image-editing software. It is, without question, the standard against which all other raster file editors are measured. No illustration or drawing program is better matched with Photoshop than Illustrator. And now the line between the programs has blurred even more.

In addition to sharing major interface components, Photoshop and Illustrator can exchange files with unprecedented ease. Photoshop layers do not have to be flattened when placed in an Illustrator document. Illustrator’s vector text ...

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