Saturday, November 19, 2011

What are the main differences between raster and vector artwork? How do you decide whether raster or vector is?

What are the main differences between raster and vector artwork? How do you decide whether raster or vector is appropriate for a project? Describe one advantage and disadvantage of using raster vs. vector artwork.


I can not figure out what these are.|||Raster artwork is one size: it is also called a bitmap and if you print it at any resolution or size other than the one it was created at it looks terrible. It does have its place in commercial printing, but commercial printing technologies are not ALL that different than what we get on the screen. Bitmap editing or creating and fixing raster artwork is easier than creating vector artwork. Believe me.





Vector artwork is a record of the steps needed to create the artwork. Length or relative length and angle of the lines for example. As such it is usually larger than Raster artwork (which itself can be very big) but the advantage of Vector artwork is you can print the same file onto a business card or a T-shirt or a Billboard poster. In other words it is scalable.





If you know or can figure out exactly how large your image has to be to be effective in advance, go with raster. If you are not sure, or need it at different sizes, go with vector art.|||artweaver free think its raster vector like 3d software but it cost alot artweaver free I like 5.7 more stuff you can do 10. cool get them at cnet or search google hope this helps the picture by name was draw with 10 use layering good luck bub101

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