Along with a host of assorted utility programs and a generous collection of high-quality BitStream fonts and about 10,000 clipart images. Well, that is what all the graphic professionals use. If you plan on working with them, then you had better speak PhotoShop. And that it is a fine, professional level tool that thousands of graphic artists have used to create the images that you see many times a day. Hey, hold on there.
Vector images are more indirect.
The implementation focuses on storing and manipulating mathematical formulas that will later be evaluated in order to generate the image. The advantage to this is that it makes the image resizable without distortion. It is real easy for the program to change the size of the image without getting all the horrible jaggies that you get when you resize a bitmap image. When you use a scanner to scan in an image, you will end up with a bitmap image. PhotoShop, Corel PhotoPaint, JASC Paint Shop Pro, along with most inexpensive photo-type editing programs, are bitmap editors.