What’s the difference between a bitmap file and a vector file?
A digital image is put together in one of two ways. One way to represent a digital image is with a bunch of tiny picture elements called pixels. Your computer monitor’s screen is made up of thousands of tiny pixels. If you’ve ever zoomed in real close to an image on your computer screen, you’ve probably noticed the rectangular shapes that makes up the image. Those are pixels, and digital images that are composed of pixels—such as images from a digital camera or scanner—are called “bitmaps”. Bitmaps are called so, because the pixels are “mapped” to a grid where each pixel represents a “bit” of information in the file. Bitmaps are resolution specific. This means that in a given bitmap image, at a given size, there are only so many pixels. The amount of pixels determines the image’s resolution. If you try to enlarge a digital photograph that has a set number of pixels, it will usually result in a fuzzy and grainy image because the number of pixels need to increase if the dimensions of the
