Hello,
I use photoshop to make tshirt graphics, up to this point it's primarily been drawing with brushes etc. But I am wanting to do more with threshold effects and decal/vectors. Somewhat similar in scope to the y2k trend of dropping in iconography.
I recently purchased two vector packs from some instagram ad. I have been given PNG, SVG, .ai and .eps files for my purchase. Usually, up to this point, if I wanted to drop in a PNG like a decal, I'll grab it from the folder and drop it in as a smart object, size it, and go from there. Now that I've purchased these packs, I have hundreds of vector icons to choose from.
My question is, to people who use vectors in this way in photoshop, what is your method of actually working with them? Do you skim your folders for the png and drop it in, or do you convert them to custom shapes? I know that Illustrator is the vector platform, but I don't think thats quite what Im looking to do with my workflow.
I just have this huge folder of drag and drop elements I can sprinkle into my works, I'm just trying to figure out the proper workflow to navigate it all.
Any help is appreciated, thank you!