Vectors in Photoshop

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Oct 26, 2009
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I’m new to Photoshop, I was looking at a video tutorial how to make bubbles, the instructor said the image would be vector based, so it can be greatly enlarged, how is this possible, I thought Photoshop was pixel based.

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Oct 26, 2009
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I’m new to Photoshop, I was looking at a video tutorial how to make bubbles, the instructor said the image would be vector based, so it can be greatly enlarged, how is this possible, I thought Photoshop was pixel based.

Photoshop is primarily a raster image processing package. That means it deals with images that are made up of a grid of pixels in pre-defined brightness and colour values.
However, it can handle vectors too in a limited capacity. This is how it’s able to stretch and scale text up and down without introducing distortion. It’s also how the likes of paths and the pen tool work.
As an extension of this, it now has the ability to handle some vector graphics in its own right.

Of course, as with everything, you choose the right tool for the right job. If you’re working mostly with vectors, you choose Illustrator. If you’re working mostly with rasters, you choose photoshop.

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