Digital Graphics Software

There are meny diferant types of digital graphics software programmes ranging from paint to photoshop , they are either and , or vector programmes or bitmap programmes. A vector programme is a programme such as microsoft visio , A bitmap programme is a programme such as paint.

A Vector image is a image of high quaility , when a vector image is magnified none of the quality of the image is lost , this is becuase they use mathmatical equasions like points lines and curves or polygons to maintain the quality.

A Bitmap image is a image off somthing like paint and this is also known as raster graphics and this only works of a grid of rectangular pixels , this means that a bitmap is low quality becuase it can only support 24 colours and if you magnified a bitmap image it picture would become all pixilated.



Below is a picture showing the diferance between vector graphics and bitmap (raster) graphics and as you can see the bitmap image is very pixilated and blury , the Vector image has lost none of its quality.