Photoshop for Designers: Working with Illustrator

This installment of Photoshop for Designers shows how to combine Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, taking advantage of the strongest features in each program. Learn how to work with symbols, custom brushes, Live Paint, creative filters, clipping masks, and more, while following along with veteran graphic designer and teacher Nigel French. Nigel explains the relationship between Photoshop and Illustrator and walks through hands-on projects such as a montage, a movie poster, and a print ad, while demonstrating how to work back and forth between the two applications.

Topics :

Combining Photoshop with the Illustrator Image Trace command
Generating "painted" type with Illustrator brush strokes
Creating an abstract background
Adapting a Photoshop custom shape into a symbol
Experimenting with transformations
Creating frames, backgrounds, and type
Duplicating, scaling, and arranging elements
Modifying Illustrator symbols in Photoshop
Adding and styling type with Offset Path

Photoshop for Designers: Working with Illustrator

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