The PSD files created by Adobe Photoshop are known as bitmap or raster images. Essentially, they're essentially made up of a grid of colored pixels. For some purposes, including common business uses, ...

If you work with computers sooner or later you’re going to find you need an image that is in a raster (AKA bitmap) format (e.g. .gif, .jpg, .wmf) translated to a vector format (e.g. .svg, .cgm, .dwg).

Just as you'd never send an IT person to do a human resource manager's job, digital image file formats all have their rightful place in the world, complete with their own strengths and weaknesses.

Can anyone recommend software for conversion of a raster image to vector representation? I have a .jpg that I need to blow up to poster size. This is just a one-off so I can't pick up an expensive ...

If you enlarge illustrations or live-action images to a large extent, the outlines will be blurred. Using the free web application ' Vectorizer.AI ', it is possible to convert illustrations and ...

Adobe Illustrator’s Live Trace feature is a phenomenal way to transform a raster image into a vector image—or to put it more plainly—to turn a photograph into a drawing. Placing a raster image into ...

If you have an interest in computer graphics or design, it doesn't take long to realize there are two different kinds of graphics: vectors and rasters. Although you might not be able to tell the ...