KEEP AS SMART OBJECT OR CONVERT TO PIXELS?
> When you open an Illustrator document in Photoshop you get a choice between opening As Smart Object or As Pixels. Selecting As smart object will keep the document as an editable vector element, so it can be updated in Illustrator at any time and will scale without loss of quality in Photoshop. This can be very useful, but takes up a lot of processing speed and isn’t needed for what we’re doing here.