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The magic of vector graphics

The magic of vector graphics

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The magic of vector graphics

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- [Instructor] When drawing in an application like Photoshop, you are adding pixels that have particular color and light values. These kinds of images are referred to as bitmap or rasterized, which is the proper way to say they're made of actual pixels. If you want to edit images of this kind, you need to edit the pixels. There's another way though. Vector graphics. Vector graphics use shapes rather than individual pixels. You can resize vector graphics as much as you like, and they're automatically redrawn at the current resolution of your image. Let's look at an example, a circle. Here I am in Photoshop, looking at a circle I created with the shape tool. The tool is set to draw pixels. Using the selection tool, I can change the size of the shape. Look what happens when I do. The edge of the circle becomes jagged because, in reality, the circle is a set of square pixels and I just made all of those square pixels larger. Now look what happens when I draw a circle as a shape which is a…

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