Can illustrator be used for digital compositing?

[RealAnise]

Hey all,

So I promised to post a piece on a forum that requires digital compositing. Normally, I would obviously be doing this in PS, but there are endless problems with re-opening programs that were just updated to the 2017 versions (and that's a WHOLE different post.) AI has not been updated and is still opening. So does AI have some workarounds to do the same thing? It clearly isn't primarily designed for photo compositing, but can it be done, and what's the best way to go about it? Thanks for all advice.

[bzareenk]

A drawback of Illustrator is that it can't be used easily to modify images that are already created, since there are limited filters and image editing tools available to you and for image composition you have photoshop which is specifically created for this purpose.

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Bahaar+Khan  schrieb

A drawback of Illustrator is that it can't be used easily to modify images that are already created,

That is not a drawback.

Illustrator is meant for vector editing. And of course you can use Illustrator for editing already created vector images.

Photoshop is designed for editing raster images.

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[Om Nath Jha]

Hi there,

I completely agree with Monika on  this. It won't be correct to say a "drawback" for Illustrator. It's a program designed for vector graphics. We  have Photoshop to take care of image editing.

Please feel free to report if you need any assistance regarding Photoshop or contacting support. If you have a specific workflow for Illustrator, you can share that as well so that we can try to assist you further.

Regards,

Om