Have you heard the terms raster and vector but aren’t sure what they mean? We’re going to look at the differences between raster and vector designs.
Raster designs are designs that you create in Photoshop and they’re made up of pixels.
One of the great things about creating raster designs is that you can use and create artwork the resembles artwork created by hand. Photoshop has a fantastic range of beautiful and realistic art brushes that you can use to create your artwork and replicated hand painted work.
If you’re creating hand painted or drawn artwork and then bringing it into the computer to create your pattern repeats, then Photoshop will also allow you to retain the beautiful hand created quality of your work. For me, the greatest benefit for using Photoshop over Illustrator.
One thing you do want to be careful of though is enlarging raster images. If you enlarge them too much, they do become pixelated so it’s important to think about scale when you are creating your hand painted or drawn elements as you want to avoid enlarging them if possible.
If you want to find out more about preparing hand created artwork for Photoshop, you can read more
here.
