#Adobe photoshop and illustrator full#

#Adobe photoshop and illustrator full#

Choose Illustrator for creating web graphics, full page designs, and documents, but not for working on photographs and straight images, or for large multi page documents. If you resize things repeatedly in Illustrator they won’t become distorted as they do in Photoshop. This vector basis means it is really intended for scalable design elements like brand marks and logos.

It is a vector based software, so it uses lines to work and doesn’t pixelate or lose detail. Illustrator is very versatile, because you can use it to produce anything from web designs and graphics to text documents. creating banner ads, user interface designs, and video graphics.And remember, don’t set type in Photoshop. On the other hand, Photoshop is not the right program for creating logos, because you won’t be able to manipulate or enlarge your files the way you can with a file from Illustrator. Photoshop is ideal for editing and creating photos and pixel based artwork, creating banner ads, editing pictures for print, designing video graphics, and creating user interface designs. Similarly, it can give you trouble designing layouts for print or web. Photoshop is perfect for editing photos but not for images that have text in them. It works at the pixel level because it is a raster based software, and this is why your text images in Photoshop can become pixelated. Photoshop is a powerful tool when properly used. Here are the three programs, broken down by their basic functions: Adobe Photoshop Learn the ins and outs of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign so you can use all three together to produce your very best work, because where each program fails, another comes through. Knowing the differences is key to creating better work, because using the wrong program can mean an unusable logo, sloppy text, or a blurry end product. However, you may not have a strong grasp on the details of when to use each one and what each program is capable of-especially since these distinctions often confound even professionals working in the industry. Be aware this is not the original file we placed in its a copy that Adobe Photoshop has made and embedded in our Smart Layer.You probably already know that Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign are the central components of the Adobe Creative Suite. Now comes the clever part, by double clicking on the little thumbnail in my Adobe Photoshop Smart Layer it will open up Adobe Illustrator and our vector artwork becomes editable within the Adobe Illustrator Interface, you can change colours and shapes etc. Once the Adobe Illustrator Vector file is in the layer you will notice a small icon in the thumbnail of the layer that indicates that this is a smart layer, this means the vector information will be kept and the artwork can be scaled to any size without loosing any quality. By Place Embedding it has all the information kept within the layer. There is also a Place Linked option but I would avoid this as then you will always need the corresponding Adobe Illustrator file to accompany your Adobe Photoshop file. We are first going to create a blank Adobe Photoshop file, I have just created a blank A4 print document.

This will however restrict us from using the majority of Adobe Photoshop tools as they are built for editing pixel based images. So this time we are going to import the Adobe Illustrator file but keep it as a vector so it can be scaled to any size we want without the loss of quality. When you click Ok you will then have an Adobe Photoshop file with the artwork on its own layer, all you need to do is press enter to confirm the size within the layer. You will then see a dialogue box which enables you to specify the size that the file is rasterised in Adobe Photoshop.īecause we are going from an Adobe Illustrator Vector in to a pixel based Adobe Photoshop layer we can specify any size we like big or small. Go to File>open and browse to the Adobe Illustrator file that you would like to open. Pixel based Adobe Photoshop Layerįirstly I am going to create a pixel based Adobe Photoshop layer from my Adobe Illustrator Artwork, this is the easy one! The other way is to embed the Adobe Illustrator file in to the Adobe Photoshop layer and keep its Vector functionality which is a little more tricky but very useful, I'm going to run through each of these methods step by step.