What is a Raster Image?
Raster is more of a photograph, with gradients, soft meshes, textures, etc. Not just spot color shapes as described above (vector art). You could not cut out a raster image out of vinyl. Raster images need to be printed vinyl and transferred to our magnetic material. Raster images are usually printed as 4 color process prints.
Raster is more of a photograph, with gradients, soft meshes, textures, etc. Not just spot color sharp lines. You could not cut out a raster image. Raster can be 1,2,3, or 4 colors which makes the entire spectrum (CMYK, RGB, ETC.). 5. What programs let me save in vector formats? Adobe Illustrator, and Corel Draw are the major vector software programs out there. Photoshop can export illustrator paths, and some other programs are also able to export their paths to illustrator file formats. 6. When do I save a raster image, and when do I save as Vector? Vector is the file format you use when the image is made with paths and fills, It’s the only format you can cut vinyl from. Raster would be used for Photos and all miscellaneous images. 7. How should I give you my artwork? It all depends on what kind of product we are producing, if we are doing a 1 color vinyl sign/banner the best format is Illustrator, in most cases if you can give it to us in Illustrator format it’s usually the best, even
