What is vector art and how does it differ from raster images?
Vector Art (also referred to as Camera Ready Art) is defined as the use of geometrical primitives such as, points, lines, curves and polygons, which are all based on mathematical equations to represent images in computer graphics. Vector art is characterized by its smooth lines and editability. It can also be reduced or enlarged to any size without loss of clarity or crispness. Artwork can only be considered vector when it has been created in a design program such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw. Scans or bitmaps that have been placed into a vector program are not considered vector art. Raster Images are data structures representing a rectangular grid of pixels (dots), or points of color. Some examples of raster images are JPEG and TIFF files, bitmaps, Microsoft Word documents, and GIF files. These types of images are not editable and can not be color separated which can result in poor print quality when enlarged. Below are two images taken from the same low resolution JPEG file (Non
