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Photoshop vector-based type

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Photoshop vector-based type

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- Just as you might expect, Photoshop provides a type tool that lets you create layers of text. You can edit the text anytime you like and thanks in part to Adobe's history as the inventor of the Postscript typeface, you have all the formatting controls you can possibly want. What you might not expect is that text is unlike anything we've witnessed so far. In previous chapters, I've shown you features that affect pixels, those tiny squares of color that make up a digital image. But while text looks like pixels, complete with blocky edges and zoom ratios beyond 100%, it is in fact vectors. Meaning that Photoshop defines, see outlines of each and every character of type mathematically, it renders those outlines to pixels on the fly. The result that you can scale your text to any size you like, and it will remain razor-sharp. For example, let's say you increased the resolution of an image. Photoshop can't add new detail to a photograph, we've been over that. But the program can and does…

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