Illustrations for print with texture-cymk or rgb

Hi all
I wonder if any one has any thoughts on the best way to workflow this sort of thing.
Print Illustration,
Starting with a vector illustration in cymk (Illustrator).
We then want to grunge it up with photographic textures (taking into Photoshop) but obviously still want to control colours.
I have tried keeping it all CYMK in photoshop.. gets bulky though and not as spontaneous.
I have also just converted to RGB and tweaked from there.
A good scientific discussion would be great
anyone? thx

Thanks John. That job has gone but will definitely try this technique next time.
They are all things I have not done before. Thanks muchly
p
Actually I just tried it. To save as a 'embedded CYMK' the only way I get this option is to save as a photoshop PDF. Is this the go?
It seems to work fine. Great in-fact..I don't usually send Pdfs. I could convert it to something else (jpeg) from here but it will be sent to the printers as a pdf I suppose so why should I, right?

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