PS or Illustrator for creating photo composite?

I'm trying to build a composite image (a human figure), using elements cut, resized, rotated and pasted from photos. This will then be dropped into my own freehand illustrated background. The end product will be printed/published. I'm using a MS Surface Pro 2 - Windows 8 - which has a small screen (and probably some Windows-based drawbacks), but a useful stylus. Would you recommend me using PS or Illustrator (or something else)?

Anything that is image based (raster) you want to use photoshop or photoshop elements as it has the most features for editing the image. Vector art on the other hand should be done in illustrator as it has the most features for editing and creating vector paths.
Photo composites, images from a scanner or camera, paint programs, etc are all raster based.
Granted photoshop can do some vector and illustrator can do some raster, but they excel at their own feature set.

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Are there any tricks with this software to help disguise grainy photos?
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