Photoshop Vs Illustrator
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- monNom2
Use both. They both have strengths and weaknesses.
Personally I use illustrator for higher level planning and multi-page / multi-breakpoint design. You can block out a page layout as quickly as a wireframe, many times, or if your smart about your wires and set things up as symbols, you can style those symbols directly and have all your wires transformed to low-fi comps that are easy to tweak. Illustrator gets unstable with too many images in it, so it's not well suited to higher fidelity multi-page design, as your .ai file may never open again if you push it too far.
Multipage stuff is all way too tricky in PhotoShop. You end up with a million folders or layer comps and changes are slow. But for finessing the final design of a single page, or key elements of a template, nothing beats PhotoShop. Being able to add subtle effects to elements, tweak color levels in context, evaluate each screen for its composition, and have assets in raster format without guessing how they'll export - PhotoShop still rules for that, and the results from reworking in PhotoShop are pretty evident in the final product, IMO.
In the end, it depends what you trying to accomplish, and what your role is.