My Dad, who does lots of woodworking, wants to use a vector graphics program to draw his patterns. He' sbeen using various raster graphics programs, and is frustrated (he's an engineer) by the lack of ...

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, ...

Graphics tools are essential to manipulate visual models and pictures on a computer. If you are working on images like PNG or JPG, an editing tool like Adobe Photoshop is one that surely flashes your ...

In the first of this 'FOSS v proprietary' series we looked at some of the best software for editing and manipulating bitmap images. With digital photography such programs replace the earlier darkroom ...

Illustrator is a popular Adobe application for creating vector graphics, one of the two main forms of computer graphics. Unlike bitmap images, vector graphics are mathematically generated and retain ...

Vector graphics are infinitely scalable images created using mathematically defined elements. In simpler terms, you can make a vector graphic as large or small as you want without losing any quality.

The first part of this two-part feature on vector editing tools outlined the history and background of vector image creation and examined Inkscape, an open-source vector editing application, and ...

SVG is an acronym for a Scalable Vector Graphics file, commonly used in graphics programs like Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. It's considered a resolution-independent file format, because you ...

Adobe Illustrator is not as well-known as its eponymous cousin Photoshop, but it's far from a niche application. Illustrator is a piece of vector graphics software that's better suited for creating ...