Originally Posted by cj_purve

Illustrator is not in any way more advanced than photoshop except illustration & documents for print ... its a rediculous comparison. Illustrator is for vector (or print), Photoshop is for pixels (for web or to import into print) & they now cross over in a bunch of ways because technology has evolved to allow that to happen.

I guess now days it is much harder to see the difference between the 2 programs, but I was designing paysites with photoshop back when you had to rasterize a text layer, duplicate it and blur it to make a drop shadow. (fabulous designs those! LOL) The *why* really is tied in with a lot of old school print procedures that have not yet been improved on with digital technology.

If you know photoshop well enough, you can make it do almost anything, but if you design brochures & multi page documents for print often you start to see how the programs work in together.

Bleed for trimming, registration & crop marks, pantone color matching, publishing pdf's ... all much better supported with programs like illustrator, corel draw and even old school ones like freehand!

You'd think that with macromedia & adobe merging they could afford to do away with some of the extra products ... especially now that they are all included in 'suites' anyway. But then we'd spend less!