You can create gradients to blend two colors seamlessly but again, that is restricted within a shape. This is also the reason why many digital artists prefer photoshop to create digital art.Īs you can see, each color in a vector is a separate shape.
There is no proper blending in illustrations made in vector. The problem with vector is that it always has a wireframe effect. Notice how each color is within a wireframe structure. From videos to the daily newspaper and weekly magazine, all graphical elements are raster or pixel-based. This is why you cannot take a picture of something written far away and zoom in to see it clearly.Įven though raster has some limitations, it is the most popular and widely used. This means that since each pixel has a defined value, zooming in on a pixel-based raster image would result in zooming in on the pixel (resulting in blurring). The problem with raster is that it’s resolution-dependent. In a bitmap, the shape would be a circle ( as shown below ). This red circle is visible because the pixels are all showing red color. This Bitmap is a map of pixels, with each pixel having bits of information ( 0 represents on and 1 represents off).īut one pixel has more to show than to be just on or off. What is RasterĪ raster image is how images are stored and shown on a digital screen or printed on paper. By the end of the article, you’ll know everything about raster and vectors and all the terms associated with it. In vector, shapes (images) are defined by lines that create a wireframe of the image and filling the colors in.ĭon’t worry if you do not understand what these words mean. This means that a raster image is made up of individual pixels with each pixel having a specific color. The first thing to know is that the raster elements are made of pixels while vector is made of mathematical paths. To see which one is better, or which one is more common, here is a raster vs vector article highlighting the difference between the two. The images that you see both on your screen and on physical paper (posters, flyers, etc) are either one of these two, raster or vector.
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