One flat press, or Photoshop, then import?

Hey everyone,
I've been doing a lot of website design between Illustrator and Photoshop, and it's come to mind that I might be using Photoshop ahead of time or shouldn't be incorporating it so much. My work flow is simple:
- Design a graphic piece for the site in Illustrator
- Give it an extra punch and shine in Photoshop
- Import the PSD version into the Illustrator mockup of the web page
Problem is, I'm noticing the raster images from Photoshop showing up as kind of blocky (can see the pixelated edges) even if they haven't been resized dramatically. It doesn't look awesome, and I'm wondering at this point if I should just put all my Illustrator graphics into the web page mockup, then export it as one big image for HTML/CSS to handle later. I'll lose the power to put gloss on individual pieces in PS, but it would flatten everything into pixels at once when I'm ready to call it done.
Thoughts?

Your ned to narrow your question down. When asking such a broad question when to use Illustrator or Photoshop, that depends on the factors of what you are doing.
In most cases working in illustrator will be better because vector items can be scaled without any loss of quality. I sometimes though prefer working in Phothsop, cause what you see is what you get.
You also may want to look into working with vector as much as you can in Photoshop. Shapes for example are like type in photoshop and are vector objects, until you save a bitmapped file. If you are working with images and retouching, you will have to work in Photoshop. I always work in atleast double my final resolution(even more than that for jobs that may go to print), and keep a file as backup. During the creative process you may have to scale up, and then your work will look soft or even pixelated.

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