It's a pain in the backside to have to unembed, edit, and then re-embed images! Adobe, please add this functionality.

There is a third-party plugin, Rasterino from Astute Graphics, which allows to do exactly that.
Why Adobe never figured out their own way to complete the integration between their two oldest apps, in 30 years — I have no idea.
Shame!

There is a plugin called Rasterino, from the AstuteGraphics plugins pack, which allows exactly this — open an embedded image in Photoshop, and update one when it’s saved. It also allows better cropping and trimming and other useful things. I advise to try it, if you need this often. Too long to wait until Ai team implements something, AG team managed to invent a decade ago.

Yes I agree, Like XD, InDesign, Photoshop have option to edit in another application. Why don't illustrator have that.

I agree. I don't understand why this is so simple in InDesign – you can open a placed image easily in another application for editing – but seemingly totally impossible in Illustrator!

Need a feature to Edit any Raster image by jump into Photoshop even if embedded form. this will help to enhance used image without save.

Much in the way that Adobe Acrobat allows you to 'Edit PDF' I need you to develop a similar capability for objects in Illustrator in order to open them and edit in Photoshop.

Currently linked objects can be opened in an editor or an embedded image could be unlinked so that it can be edited in a similar fashion. I'd like to see the approach taken with the generation of a temporary file used to enable short term editability that then gets brought back into the Illustrator document.

For example, when you have a lot of tiled basemap images. I should be able to highlight them all then right mouse click > edit with Photoshop. To send a temporary instance of the selection to Photoshop so that it can be adjusted and then returned back to Illustrator.

Appreciate it's not as simple as that, you have to contend with linked instances, multiple embedded file types, colour profiles etc. However if it can be achieved with Acrobat, why not with other tools in Adobe Creative Cloud?

The latest functionality to be rolled out to the Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher range makes full use of their interoperability. A feature like the one I describe would go some way to replicating this functionality.

I would then recommend that you look to replicate this to a range of the Adobe CC apps. Shapes and vector paths in Photoshop should have a function where they can temporarily be sent to Illustrator for refinement. Likewise, InDesign can send links for editing in Photoshop or Illustrator but not when you paste in an image that becomes embedded, or once you've created any vectors natively in InDesign. These should also be able to be temporarily opened in Photoshop/Illustrator for adjustment.

Interactivity in InDesign has been stagnant for too long. You have a great tools in After Effects and XD that ought to be able to facilitate the generation of interaction for digital documents destined for PDF, but authored in InDesign.

This cross compatibility throughout - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, XD - should be so ingrained throughout the wider Adobe offering that your entire suite that is doesn't end up feeling (to use the drive storage term) JBOD - Just a Bunch of Developers - all working on different projects!

If you haven't already, please create a team to sit atop your individual application development teams to look specifically at opportunities to improve software compatibility and interaction throughout the Adobe Creative Cloud.

I agree Egor, embedded images that could be opened in PS would be great, like opening sound files within Premiere in Audition.

I kinda protest. What AI need is an ability to open embedded images directly in PS, as Rasterino plugin now allows.

Basic image edit functions

To make quick edits to a image, I need to open Photoshop and edit, then return to Illustrator.

Hopefully, there will be a function to allow basic edits within Illustrator to make the Workflow faster.

This is not something I would do very often, but this was asked to me for an illustrator workflow :

Use and artboard to place pictures from a camera, sometimes edit their lighting, place, crop, annotate and… embed. (in the end, we need 1 file, no links).

Once the image is embedded in the Ai document, it's impossible to edit it in Photoshop (and maybe change the lighting/colors settings…)

A workaround now would be to un-embed, edit the newly created file in photoshop, place and embed again.

Another solution would be to include the Adobe Camera Raw filter in illustrator so we don't have to use full Photoshop only for basic color adjustments.