Photoshop and vector art help...

I have Photoshop 7 and recently purchased Illustrator 10 and have a question. Is there a way to import an Illustrator file into Photoshop without losing any quality? I have opened an .ai file in Photoshop and it loses some amount of quality.
Thanks
Adam

try saving as an .eps file?

I had that problem in school before. I found that just copying and pasting the Illustrator image into Photoshop seemed to work. As well, if you are placing the vector in a Bitmapped image, then open the vector in its own file and the bitmap in another, then you can make sure the resolution on both are the same, rather then pasting a vector on top of a picture. That seemed to minimize quality problems for me

If you just go and open an illustrator file in photoshop, it will be rasterized. Photoshop will not keep the file as vectors.

The only way that is possible (that I know of), to keep illustrator vector lines as vectors is to leave illustrator open. Select the vectors you want to import, then go to edit>copy. Switch to photoshop and go to edit>paste. You will be prompted to insert the vectors in three formats. Make sure they're imported as a "shape layer".

After you do this, you will have to change the color of the shape layer to whatever color it was in illustrator as the vectors will not retain their color using this method.

Thanks!!!