I’ve heard of vector and raster graphics. What’s the difference?
Vector graphics are composed of lines and curves connected by points. A circle is four curves connected by four points. A rectangle is four lines, connected by four points. When you make a vector circle larger or smaller, the curved lines become larger or smaller, but the circle retains perfectly crisp lines. Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand, and CorelDRAW are three examples of vector programs. Vector programs are also sometimes called drawing programs, while programs like Adobe Photoshop and Procreate’s Painter are paint, or raster programs. Raster graphics are composed of pixels. When you enlarge a digital image made of pixels, the software has to create many more pixels to represent the larger image. Enlarge it too much and the software has a hard time representing the new image, because there are so many more pixels involved. The result is blurriness and distortion. When you work with raster graphics, try to work at the size at which you’ll ultimately be using the image, beca
