Workflow... errr, or trickle

Okay, I need a better understanding of workflow between Illustrator and Photoshop. In particular this is for a class project which will go to full color print. But I guess I'd like to have an understanding for projects (different types) in general.

I understand that Illustrator is vector and Photoshop is pixels (basically), so when I've got a job that involves photo manip and graphics work, as well as typography and layout of content--where do I start... Do I pull from PS into Illust so I can output to .eps? Do I pull my Illust. stuff to PS as outlines and output as color separation?

Or am I missing the big picture all together?

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Go here and go to Vector Art, that's most lickely done with illustrator.

Use illustrator to make the clean part of your work (typo and layout in your case), then move to photoshop for the photomanip.

In our shop you would do this:

1) art direction, concept and sketches

2) Create supporting art (photos, photomanips, etc)
-photoshop: (for color printing the color mode of these graphics should be CMYK.)

3) Page layout: import supporting art into whatever application you use.
i.e. Illustrator, CorelDraw, Pagemaker, QuarkXpress...etc.

We use Mainly quark, so some of our supporting graphics also come FROM Illustrator..... but in your case I would use Illustrator as a page layout application... as well as vector creation. You can even create things in Illustrator save them annd import them later.
The main thing is you really want the flexibility of a program like Illustrator, or whatever to do the actual "Layout" in...
That way you can actually "SEE" the page boundry and allow for bleed, folding and everything without having to set up all your guidelines in Photoshop to let you know where your margins and stuff are.
Another thing is in photoshop you have the option of rasterizing text... rasterized text looks like crap. I prefer to do ALL text layout elsewhere.

I know I kinda got to ramblin' there, but I hoipe some of that you can use.

TUI: You da man. I knew you'd come thru for me.

Check back later please, I'm sure I'll have some specific questions as I go through this exercise.


::edit:: oops, first question. What resolution to work in PS? This is just a class project, so professor said use 150 dpi (I think because of size limitations), but that sounded low to me. Is this where we get into the whole lpi discussion? i.e. check with your printer to see what capability he has?