Switching between Photoshop and Illustrator

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Hi,Another newbie question here. I've been drawing a large file in Illustrator but i've saved that as a PSD and opened it in Photoshop so I can age it down, add noise, etc. I want to be able to edit the file in Illustrator again, but when I'm saving it as a PSD and placing it in Illustrator, blue boxes are forming around the shapes and it's not letting me edit it how I want. The main thing that I need to edit are the arcs that I've drawn using the line tool, and I can't seem to manipulate these any more. Can anyone help? Is the bridge program useful for this? I've read a little about smart objects but I can't seem to get my head around it and because the file is 70% finished, I don't know if it's too late to start using that now.Many thanks,Lois

John Mensinger · Answer

loisg72248825 wroteI've read a little about smart objects but I can't seem to get my head around it and because the file is 70% finished, I don't know if it's too late to start using that now.If you've done any significant amount of destructive editing to the Illustrator artwork, there's no way back from that. Going to the Smart-Object workflow would mean starting over from the Illustrator vectors. (You did save it in .AI format before saving a copy as .PSD, right?)

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