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One of the cool features that Photoshop 6 has is the ability to mix vector-based shapes with raster image shapes. Notice on my Layers palette here I have a layer that says Raster S. And I also have a layer which has the T icon, which indicates that it is a type object. Type is a vector-based type of object, and what's interesting about vector-based objects is, what describes a vector-based object is a mathematical line around the shape. It allows for vector-based objects to be resolution-independent, or more accurately device-resolution (in)dependent. So it is not designed like a pixel-based raster image on a fixed grid of pixels. I am going to resize these two S's and show you what happens when vector-based shapes and raster image shapes are resized. So first with my vector-based type here. I'm going to choose Edit menu>Free Transform, and it brings up this bounding box around the object allowing me to resize this. So you can see that I've resized this S and it's still very sharp. Now I'm going to choose my raster S and do the same thing, Edit menu>Free Transform. And I will commit to that also by clicking the check box. And you can see because this S, the raster S was based on a set of pixels, it has to do something called interpolation. And what that does is add pixels out of the air, since I had to enlarge this S. You can see how this S, the S from the raster world gets soft and mushy. Whereas my vector-based object remains very sharp. Vector-based objects can have one solid color. Whereas my raster object can have multiple colors, and of course photographs or scanned images have multiple colors. The beauty of this is now I can go ahead and edit this using other colors. So I'm going to paint some other colors on this particular S, and you can see obviously I have the green and the pink. But if I wanted to go do that on my type object, now I've selected my type layer. If I go and try to paint on it, you can see I get the International Don't Symbol. So this Type layer must be rasterized or rasterize, turned into pixels, before I can try to edit it with a painting tool, which of course adds different colored pixels. So it's asking me if I want to rasterize it or not. So this is a very important feature and ability that Photoshop has, allowing you to mix and match different types of objects - raster image objects or vector image objects.