outofthebasement

hi every one, can someone explain to me what vector art is and what makes it different, and also do you need to use it in a certain program?

 

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NicolaUK

Vector art is basically fully scalable line art, Illustrator/CorelDraw as opposed to raster/pixel based art ie. Photoshop.

 

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joeshaul

Vector art is composed of shapes/nodes/points/geometry.
Raster art is composed of pixels.

Since vectors are shapes, they can be stretched without losing any image quality, which is really useful if you have a company logo which may be used on shirts, but then used on say, an 8 ft sign.

Rastar images when stretch, have to fill in the new space that's created, a lot of times it creates the "pixelated" effect.

Most commonly used vector applications:
Inkscape, CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator

Specialty vector applications for the sign industry:
GSP Composer (Gerber), FlexiSign/FlexiPro

Commonly used raster applications:
GIMP (GNU Imaging Project), Adobe Photoshop, Corel PhotoPaint

 

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outofthebasement

ok thats easy... once you download a vector say from go media you just copy and paste it in illustrator?

 

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