What about other graphics applications, such as Adobe Illustrator? Illustrator, Macromedia FreeHand, CorelDraw, and others fall into a different category of soft- ware called drawing programs. Drawings comprise objects, which are independent, mathematically defined lines and shapes. For this reason, drawing programs are sometimes said to be object-oriented. Some folks prefer the term vector-based, but I shy away from it because vector implies the physical components direction and magnitude, which generally are associated with straight lines. Besides, my prefer- ence suggests an air of romance, as in, “One day, I’m going to shake off the dust of this three-horse town and pursue a life of romantic adventure in the Object Orient!” Photoshop 6 introduces object-oriented layers, which permit you to add high- resolution text and shapes to your photographic images, all inside a single piece of artwork. In that regard, the program has become a kind of painting and drawing hybrid. These features don’t altogether take the place of a drawing program, they merely help to make Photoshop that much more flexible and capable.