>> Are you *kidding* me? This is the most advanced thing I've ever seen! o_O
> 
>   Clearly you have never used an image manipulation program to its full
> extent. Even the Gimp has many of the features showcased in that video
> (although, admittedly, some of them are not as easy to use).

Well, given that I can't actually draw, I guess I don't spend a huge 
amount of time with drawing packages. (Which arguably Photoshop is and 
the GIMP isn't - depending on your definitions.) And it's not like the 
GIMP comes with a manual. It's not even clear what half the buttons are 
meant to DO...

Some things that shock me about this video:

- Tim manages to draw, UNdraw and then redraw lines multiple times. 
Usually in a bitmap editor, all drawing operations are final and cannot 
be undone like that. (That's what's so great about vector images - you 
can edit *everything* and nothing is ever "final".)

- He scales objects. This generally isn't possible in bitmap editors 
without absurd levels of highly-visible distortion. (Tim even scales 
individual *parts* of objects - something I've never seen any bitmap 
editor allow.)

- Tim is able to move objects around, place one in front of another, and 
draw stuff behind objects. It's standard in a vector editor, but I've 
never seen it in a bitmap editor.

- I guess the floor fills kind of give it away that this *must* be a 
bitmap. But how does he manage to fill in all that counter-shading and 
never accidentally draw over the outlining? Is he just extremely 
skillful, or is the software assisting him somehow?

- How the heck does he do that thing with the floorboards? And the 
shading for the shadow in the doorway? I've never seen anything so 
advanced, ever!

- How on earth does he do the text like that? When *I* want to outline 
something, I have to sit there for hours drawing the outlines in by 
hand. He appears to have some kind of automation that does it for him... 
And not to mention all the squishing and bending of the text, and the 
multiple levels of gradients and...

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