Leah's Game design LVL3: Types of digital graphics

Digital Graphics

Raster Images

In computer graphics, Raster graphics or bitmap images is a dot of data that shows a rectangular grid of pixels in colour. This can be shown on a monitor, paper or other displays. Raster images or also saved in image files with different formats.In other terms a raster image is a very small image file and when you zoom in closer you can see each individual pixel in the image. Also if you wanted to make a raster image bigger you would loose the quality of the image and in which making it pix-elated. Types of raster images are bmp, gif, tiff, jpg.

GIF:

BMP:

TIFF/JPG:They've are the same but a JPG is compressed, with TIFF it can be uncompressed and compressed.

Vector images

Vector images is a digital image with a sequence of commands or mathematical statements that place lines and shapes in a given 2D or 3D space. In physics, a vector is quantity and a direction at the same time. This can also make the image big and the quality of the image doesn't get as much blurred as a raster image, also the difference is that a rater image is only 2D and The vector image can do 2D and 3D. Types of Vector images are PSD, WMF, FLA and AI.