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Photoshop’s alternative to pixels

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Photoshop’s alternative to pixels

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- Most folks think of Photoshop as a photographic editing program but it's also a photo realistic illustration program. In fact, in many ways, Photoshop is as powerful a drawing program as it's Vector-based counterpart, Illustrator. Take shape layers for example. Like Illustrator, Photoshop provides tools for drawing primitive shapes such as rectangles, ellipsis, and polygons. These tools result in Vector-based shape layers that you can scale and rotate as much as you like without any degradation in quality. You can round the corners of a rectangle, one corner at a time. You can stroke a shape and even create dashed or dotted outlines and you can combine shapes using path operations which let you build complex shapes from simple ones. Better still, you can draw predefined shapes like hearts and floral ornaments as well as define your own custom shapes, neither of which you can do in Illustrator. And best of all, you can seemlessly integrate these shapes with photographic images. Now…

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