You know… it’s prob­a­bly a silly real­iza­tion… but I’ve always copy & pasted vec­tor shape from Illus­tra­tor to Pho­to­shop, never the other way around. Today, I had to con­vert a shape that I wanted to use from Pho­to­shop to Illus­tra­tor (CS4 by the way), I was so sick of trac­ing it. I mean what’s the worst thing could hap­pened if I pasted some­thing a vec­tor shape from Pho­to­shop to Illus­tra­tor, right? Get an error some­thing, but to my sur­prise, it gives me a dia­logue ask­ing me whether I want to con­vert it to an Com­pound Shape or Path…

…son of a… learn some­thing new every­day, don’t we now…? A lit­tle less deprived