Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Suite Applications

Vector Elements

While Photoshop is primarily devoted to pixels, it is possible to add text and other vector elements to a Photoshop image. It’s not appropriate to create body text in Photoshop, and most text should be created in an illustration or page-layout application. But if you want to bevel and emboss text (Figure 9.27), or give a special treatment to a vector logo, you may be compelled to handle it in Photoshop.

Figure 9.27. Vector or text elements are an interesting (although not necessarily tasteful) addition to an image.

Vector elements in Photoshop do not have any inherent resolution, although any shading applied through effects ...