: Working in illustrator & photoshop interchangeably As I've seen several people do as well, I am constantly switching back and forth between illustrator and photoshop. Illustrator, IMO, is much

@Shelton719

I would probably avoid going back and forth from one software to another. As a designer, I predesign my work in photoshop—sort of laying out my ideas first. Then I go back to illustrator where I create the type (logos) and headline text because I have so much more control in illustrator. I also create my basic shapes in illustrator. For example, I do children's illustrations. I copy and paste all of this from illustrator into photoshop. If your ultimate goal is to have something on the web, then you should create the final in photoshop and add elements from illustrator and same as a jpeg. If you goal is to print a file, then you should always create either in InDesign, bringing Photoshop files and Illustrator files into InDesign or Illustrator. Hope this helps.

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@Deb5748823

Short answer:
(I'll try to come back later and edit it with details)

Illustrator is for Vector stuff, Photoshop is for Raster stuff...

Tips:

1 - If you are using Illustration as the final software to save a raster image make sure you check the "Align New Objects to Pixel Grid" when creating a new file.

If you have an existing file with shapes n stuff in it you can find that option later in
the "Transform" Panel: "Align To Pixel Grid" (you'll find this option in the Transform Panel only if you click the little poiting down arrow, upper right and check the "Show Options")

2 - If you save stuff for your blog, you are probably saving as jpg or png, that is a raster image, not a vector, if you can, and it works in your case try the .svg file extension, works on the web and its vectors, sometimes even smaller in filesize than .jpg

3 - Try and move(copy/paste) everything to Photoshop as a Smart Object and Save from there, if it doesn't work as Smart Object try as Pixels... play around :)

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