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Photoshop (PSD). What is it, what are it ’ s properties and what can it do?. Photoshop produces Rasterized or Bitmap imagery. Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. What is a bitmap/raster?.
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Photoshop (PSD) What is it, what are it’s properties and what can it do?
Photoshop produces Rasterized or Bitmap imagery. • Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. What is a bitmap/raster?
A bitmap (or raster) image is one of the two major graphic types (the other being vector). Bitmap-based images are comprised of pixels in a grid. What is a bitmap/raster?
Each pixel or "bit" in the image contains information about the color to be displayed. • Bitmap images have a fixed resolution and cannot be resized without losing image quality. Common bitmap-based formats are JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, PICT, and BMP. What is a bitmap/raster?
Photoshop is raster based (images made of thousands of little dots, or pixels) while Illustrator is vector. Vectorvs Raster
Open up Photoshop familiarize yourself with the program interface Welcome to Photoshop
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