Here's what our Options bar looks like in Shape mode: Give it a spin by clicking and dragging with a Shape tool on your canvas while you're in Shape mode. In this mode, your first click with the Pen or a Shape tool creates a new shape layer-technically, it's a vector-based object layer. I'll use the Rounded Rectangle, but any tool shown on the right will work.Ĭhoose Shape mode from the Options bar (left). You can use any vector Shape tool you'd like to follow along. Let's look at each of the three drawing modes before we start actually drawing. Because there aren't any pixels involved, you can make vector images as big or small as you want and they'll always have perfectly crisp edges.
The paths are based on mathematical equations that tell monitors and printers exactly how to draw the image. You can create vector images in Photoshop, but they're also commonly made with programs like Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw. Vector images are made up of points and paths that form shapes, which can be filled and stroked (outlined) with color. Usually pixels are so small that you can't see them individually, but if you zoom into a raster image, the pixels appear bigger, and the image starts to look like a bunch of blocks. The size of the pixels depends on the image's resolution, which specifies the number of pixels in an inch. The number of pixels in an image depends on the device that captured it (a digital camera or scanner) or the settings you entered when you created the Photoshop document.
Raster images are made from tiny blocks of color called pixels.
The images you'll work with and create in Photoshop fall into two categories: those made from pixels and those made from paths. The camera in this illustration is surrounded by ornamentation created with Photoshop's vector tools.īefore you dive into using the vector tools, you need to understand exactly what vectors are.
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