In general, you see two types of images on your computer: Raster graphics and vector graphics. Rasters are most common, but vectors play a critical role in graphic design and website building. Again, ...

The PSD files created by Adobe Photoshop are known as bitmap or raster images. Essentially, they're essentially made up of a grid of colored pixels. For some purposes, including common business uses, ...

In the first of this 'FOSS v proprietary' series we looked at some of the best software for editing and manipulating bitmap images. With digital photography such programs replace the earlier darkroom ...

The representation of a digital image as points, lines and other geometric entities. All computer-aided design (CAD), drawing and diagramming programs create vector images (see graphics formats).

Illustrator is a popular Adobe application for creating vector graphics, one of the two main forms of computer graphics. Unlike bitmap images, vector graphics are mathematically generated and retain ...

If you have an interest in computer graphics or design, it doesn't take long to realize there are two different kinds of graphics: vectors and rasters. Although you might not be able to tell the ...

Before discussing the principal graphics file formats, however, we need to review the two fundamental types of graphics: raster and vector. A raster image is like a photo in your newspaper. Look ...

Free graphics aren’t written on stone in Microsoft PowerPoint. Many will allow you to ungroup all the pieces, use what you want and delete what you don’t. Graphics can be a huge part of your ...

There’s a gulf of difference between bitmap and vector graphics. Bitmap art is made of pixels and has a scale attached: each pixel represents black or white, or some gray or color tone. The resolution ...

It takes years to perfect graphics conversion algorithms, especially when switching between vector and raster formats. Just because an application imports or exports a particular format does not mean ...