Vector and
Bitmap
Images
Vector and Bitmap Images
What is the difference between Vector &
Bitmap Images?
Key Points for Bitmap Images
1. Are composed of pixels
2. Are resolution-dependent
3. As the image size increase the
quality decreases
4. Works well for photo-realistic images
Bitmap File Formats
GIF: Graphic Interchange Format (gif).
JPG: Joint Photographic Experts Group (jpg).
TIFF: Tagged Image File Format (tiff).
PSD: The native file format of the Adobe
Photoshop graphical editing application.
Key points for vector images
1. Changes in file size will not affect the quality
2. Are scalable
3. Works well for cartoon-like image
4. Allow the use of vector anchor points to do editing
5. Vector images are not suitable for producing
photo-realistic images.
6. Vector images are usually saved as .eps or .ai files.