
However, these lack specialised photograph manipulations and can rarely make a scratch on, say, photographs, hand drawings, etc. You can stretch them but there'll be less loss of quality, as these software are heavy and perform mathematical operations to calculate and re-calculate image attributes. when representing an image (thus such images too are called vector graphics). Vector editors are based on the concept of curves and dots, etc. These are used for more artistic, precise, and mathematical graphics designing. Inkscape (and others like Xara, SK1, Skencil, etc.) is a vector graphics editor software. Its equivalents are Corel PhotoPaint and Adobe Photoshop.

These software are used to edit photographs and graphics, add effects, make them stylish, etc. GIMP is a raster/bitmap graphics editor software.
