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I am evaluating Photoshop CS and Illustrator CS to compare them to Paint Shop Pro. It is clear that individually they are very powerful tools and offer things that PSP can’t do, however, the fact that PSP can handle vector objects and raster in the same application is a huge benefit. Specifically, the ability to rotate, resize and reposition them in their own layer to blend it with other raster images and backgrounds.
I created a vector object in Illustrator and pasted it into PS. I was able to resize, etc without any loss in quality, but apparently this is the only chance you get to do so because you can’t do anything else until you ‘place’ the object. I assume this rasterizes the vector object, and from that point on any lossless deformation is impossible. Is this true?
I have read that some people use Illustrator for this type of thing (instead of doing all the work in PS) but frankly the raster manipulation is more important to me.
So I guess I’m saying that I am confused how to use these two applications together effectively?
I created a vector object in Illustrator and pasted it into PS. I was able to resize, etc without any loss in quality, but apparently this is the only chance you get to do so because you can’t do anything else until you ‘place’ the object. I assume this rasterizes the vector object, and from that point on any lossless deformation is impossible. Is this true?
I have read that some people use Illustrator for this type of thing (instead of doing all the work in PS) but frankly the raster manipulation is more important to me.
So I guess I’m saying that I am confused how to use these two applications together effectively?
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