Does anyone on here besides me think that fake vexels or vectors make you look bad.

Fake vexels/vectors are horrible, I despise them.

Some people do them to make people think that they did a REAL vexel, but you can tell the difference between a real vexel and a fake vexel.

I don't have the patience, nor the tools, to make a vector/vexel.... So I tend to run either the posterize filter or the cutout filter to achive a similar effect which I usually cover in other images aswell.... You can't exactly tell that I ran the filter in the first place. -shrug- If you do it correctly it'll look okay. But they are no comparison to actual vectors/vexels.... ^_^u Damn, that's long.

But you know it makes you look bad right? Makes you look lazy

i cant really tell them apart but w/e i would vexel and vector, but i dont have the tools and i think it makes u lazy i call my friends who use psp lazy because they dont bother to use photoshop

Most of the people who use photoshop do real vexels.

i thought u need illustrator with it? lol even if i did i dont have much 2 vexel with

Yes, you do need illustrator to do a VECTOR, but you can make VEXELS in Photoshop. And yes, I think fake vectors/vexels are ugly.

I can't do either. Elements has no pen tool...
And I do realize it makes me look lazy, but I can't afford to spend 12+ hours on somthing like that, nor do I have the resources. Besides, the way I used it was to make one particular object stand out... I didn't actually want a vexel, just the look because it's so simplified.

Ok. Yeah, vectors are illustrator and vexels are photoshop.

Those are exactly my words.

It's hard to do with Elements, so therefore, I can't. I've tried by using the polygoon lasso tool, but it comes out with rough edges. Anyways, I can't tell the difference between Vectors & Vexels, but I can definetely tell the difference between fake ones. Fake ones looks bad if you can tell they're fake.

NO. I'd rather have nothing.

I don't like them. They make you look lazy and lower your credibility. If you're going to bother to make a vector at all, it better be real. You're just passing yours off as a "vector" when you really just used a filter or overlayed colors, while other people who make real vectors work hard on it.

Exactly. But when people know that they make them look bad, then why do they still do them?

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Actually, there my friend jenn's EXACT WORDS... Please be nice.


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I said that as well. But I've never been to pro-boards. I'll find the post for you if you want it. And I was in no way trying to mean. Get that straight.

Cause they're lazy and they want the recognition without working for it. It's like cheating in school or something.

Yes, I absolutely agree. And fake vexels/vectors look nothing like the real thing. They look pretty bad, actually. =\

So a vexel is made in Photoshop and a vector is in Image Ready. What about Paint Shop? Is the distinction having anything to do with a vector or a raster layer?

Maybe I'll get up the guts to try one, LOL

Adobe Photoshop and Jasc Paint Shop Pro = Vexel

Adobe Illustrator, not Image Ready = Vector

I've never really tried a vexel on Paint Shop Pro.

^ Yeah, well, it works.

Nope, don't like them.