Making life easy: Copy and paste, drag and drop

Saving a file in an earlier version enables the application to “understand” the file. Close the file and open it again before you try to copy and paste. If you ever bring something from Illustrator into Photoshop (or vice versa) and something weird happens (parts of the image are missing, odd lines streak through the image, nothing happens, or your computer crashes), try saving the file as an earlier version, such as Illustrator 8 or Illustrator 6. (Well, okay, just the desires that center on moving files between graphics applications. Each method produces slightly different results to meet your every need, whim, or desire.

You can take files from either application and put them directly into the other application in five ways: dragging and dropping copying and pasting (almost identical to cutting and pasting) placing exporting and importing or opening.

Illustrator and Photoshop, both from Adobe, provide unique and useful integration capabilities.

Illustrator to photoshop