I recently switched to the amazing Xencelabs Medium Bundle and I just love it. Tablets make a huge difference with Photoshop and I can’t work without one nowadays. It was the smallest Wacom available at that time, I think it was an A5 format.

Tablet: I remember purchasing my first tablet back in 2011. These are affiliate links, so if you do decide to purchase any of them, I’ll earn a commission.īut in all honesty, these are the exact tools that I use and recommend to everyone, even my closest friends and family. I hope you’ll also find them as useful as me. Here are some tools that I use daily while retouching or editing that made my life easier. I hope you found it helpful as you’re using Adobe Photoshop. Here are some of my favorite Photoshop tools: Save the file with a relevant name in a location of your choice, then click OK. Begin with the AI file open in Adobe Illustrator and select File > Save As from the top menu. If you already have the program, or are willing to purchase it, then let’s start exploring how you can involve Affinity Designer in the process of opening AI files in Photoshop! It can be purchased here, for a starting price of $49.99, with no free trial or unpaid version available. The one disadvantage of this technique is that it involves using Affinity Designer, which is a paid program.

4: Move the File from Illustrator, to Affinity Designer, then to PhotoshopĪnd finally, let’s discuss the method that will let you transfer the file between Illustrator and Photoshop whilst preserving the separate layers and keeping the contents as vectors rather than rasterising them. So, this method is also limited, as it doesn’t actually allow you to make majorly specific edits to the layer itself within Photoshop (although you can add adjustment layers, or other layers such as text or images, to the file).

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