Invisible wrote:

> 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".)

Undo, or he occasionally flips the stylus over and uses the eraser end. 
(yes, it has an eraser..)

> - 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.)

He's probably using a high enough resolution to mitigate the effects, 
plus the scaling he's doing isn't *too* drastic.

> - 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.

Layers. Even Gimp has layers.

> - 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...

Photoshop has a means of adding effects to layers. Essentially, you open 
the blending options dialog, and choose the items you want (Drop shadow, 
  Outer/Inner glow, Stroke, etc ...)

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