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Raster vs. vector images

Raster vs. vector images

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Raster vs. vector images

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- [Instructor] You've likely heard the terms raster and vector images. Let's take a brief moment and talk about what these are and why you need to know about them for teaching and learning. Now raster images are defined pixel by pixel. If you zoom way in to a raster image, using command or control plus several times, eventually you'll get down to a grid of squares that shows the individual blocks of color or pixels that make up the image. Now Photoshop is primarily a raster-based image editor. Which means it's primarily designed so that you can manipulate each and every one of these individual pixels that make up your image. Now photographs are great examples of raster-based images because there are lots of very fine gradations between one region of an image and another. And being able to precisely control the color of each and every one of those pixels in a wide variety of ways is what makes Photoshop such a uniquely powerful tool. I'll press command or control 0 to fit my image back…

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