Problems opening an illustrator pdf in photoshop

i'm designing a poster in illustrator. its all vectors so its all clean and crisp. I have to bring it into photoshop to add metallic pantone gold, so in order to bring it over i have to save it as a pdf. but when i open it up in photoshop it becomes horribly pixelated. but when i open it up in acrobat or anythin else, its grand. Any thoughts greatly appreciated

arroncroas,
It may be some setting or other thing in Photoshop, so maybe this is a better forum to ask and avoid counter questions:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop

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