13 A: Photoshop and Illustrator

• The first thing that was stressed during the webinar was to develop a solid creative process even before you touch the computer. Drawing is a great way to work through your ideas before you put anything on the computer. This will make your design better.
• The next thing to do is to make documents of the same size in both Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Also, using smart objects by copying an item from Illustrator and bringing it in as a smart object makes working with those items much easier. Smart objects are imbeded into Illustrator as a vector file.
• Another thing that is useful with a smart object in photoshop is that you can double click it to link it and edit it in Illustrator. The sources file, however, will not match it.
• Lastly, you can create a new action by recording everything you do and then you can reuse that action multiple times.