Illustrator’s type tools offer more control. Illustrator is better for drawing complex shapes, illustration and for layout of single page documents. Its text tools are good for low-resolution elements like website headers, buttons, banners and offer aliasing tools that make type look good on screens and displays. Photoshop is the best at manipulating images, but also is very good at creating graphics for websites and banners. Vectors created in Illustrator can be imported into Photoshop, and Photoshop images can be placed in Illustrator. Whilst the two methods are very different, both Photoshop & Illustrator understand them both. As you can, vector art is infinitely scalable whereas raster images become pixelated when enlarged.
However, vector cannot be used to efficiently draw photo images.Ībove we can see a diagram showing the difference between a 45º angle line drawn using raster and vector. A designer can create the vector logo and that logo can then be applied to anything from a business card to building signage with This is why vector graphics are always used with creating a logo. Therefore vector graphics are infinitely scalable – if it’s 50mm in length or 5 metres in length the relationship between the points will always be the same.
#Another term for raster graphics is software#
The software draws the line based on this data rather than each pixel. The software thinks of it as a mathematical formula- for example, the user creates a line on a 45º angle from point A to point B for a distance of 50mm and is 2mm wide. Vectors can be used to create shapes, lines, polygons, in fact any shape imaginable. A single vector is a line between two points. This loss of quality makes images look pixelated (the ragged square-like look you see when a raster image is enlarged too far). Raster graphics are resolution dependent – this means it cannot be scaled larger without losing quality. It’s an ideal method of drawing a photo image on a screen as each pixel has its own colour value. It’s made from pixels which are points of colour. Raster graphics, also known as bitmap graphics, is a digital image which can be displayed on a screen. Photoshop creates and manipulates raster graphics. Let’s begin with an explanation of their distinct drawing methods.Ī raster image of autumn leaves Closeup, each individual pixel is visible Raster Images Both programs are intended for different but complementary purposes, and knowing when to use one or other or both will lead to better results. Often Adobe Illustrator is seen as more specialised and many general users don’t get very involved with it. It’s immediate, it’s fun and you can use your own photos as a starting point.
Many people get their introduction to graphics on computers via Adobe Photoshop. The difference between a Vector graphics and a Raster image.įor many people this question could be rephrased as “what’s the difference between Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator?”. In this weeks tutorial Web Courses Bangkok’s newest Instructor Daniel talks about one of the fundamental pieces of knowledge that anyone learning Photoshop and Illustrator should know.
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