

It's creating a clipping mask, which you can do in Illustrator. Selecting an arbitrarily shaped set of pixels in a raster image in order to "cut away" the "background" is not "flushing the transparent aspect" (whatever that means). And you'll gain other functionality not provided in Illustrator, too. So if it's a big deal to you to be able to some level of raster image editing in a vector drawing program, that alone is a perfectly valid reason to add it to your tool set. As far back as programs like Silicon Graphics SuperPaint and Deneba Canvas (which is still alive and kicking), some vector drawing programs are designed to provide at least some level of that kind of "hybrid" functionality while other programs are more vector "purist" in their design intent (which I actually prefer, but it does not necessarily translate to "full featured" or to "better").Īffinity Designer is another current program which provides some raster editing capability in its otherwise primarily vector-based environment, and it only costs $50. That's more a "philosophical" aspect of the program's design intent. It is not "absolutely ridiculous" that you can't actually edit raster images in a vector drawing program.

It is absolutely ridiculous that you can't trace select a portion of a placed item to get rid of the background.when it just automatically flushes the transparent aspect of the image to bring pure white.
