Programs become feature-rich, they pt to be all things to all people, and in so may mask the fact that the behavior the aspects of image creation is not easily compatible with others. It is easy to be overwhelmed by the multitude of features ble, so it helps to have an appreciation ne of the underlying principles. There are essentially two different types of image-making program: bitmap, known as ‘painting’ or ‘photo editing’ are, are, and drawing, also referred to as r’. The two ways of storing graphics are completely different, but they can be withing the same program and combined the same artwork or layout.
Alternatively, you can ‘paint’ with the mouse directly on to the part of the image you want to change, or more literally paint blobs and lines of colour onto a blank ‘canvas’. Photoshop and some other bitmap editors now also provide vector drawing tools, and can store types as scalable vectors, ‘rasterizing’ it to a bitmap when you finish off your artwork