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I feel more comfortable working in PS and, with CS offering text on a curve, would like to do start doing the ads with their eps vector shapes in PS. But when I place or import, I get rasterized shapes out of the vector shapes.
Correct.
Photoshop is not a layout tool. As a professional prepress worker, please, I beg you, take the time to learn how to use the correct tools for hte job. It doesn't take that much time to learn PageMaker and Illustrator--not if you're doing this to make money.
Believe me, your life will be much, much, much easier if you start using a hammer instead of a screwdriver to drive nails. The time you invest in learning the proper tools will save you aggrevation and grief trying to use Photoshop for page layout.
How can I get eps vector shapes from Illustrator into PS? I have Illustrator 9 and PhotoShop CS.
If you copy a path in Illustrator, you can paste it as a Pen path in Photoshop. Bear in mind, though, that Photoshop vector shapes and paths can not be edited as flexibly as they can in a vector program like Illustrator, and you're highly limited in what you can do with them. You will save yourself a lot of grief by doing this kind of work entirely in Illustrator.
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