Introduction to Bitmap and Vector Graphics. Many of the image types people are most familiar with consist of a grid of pixels in which each pixel or bit contains information about how the color ...

There’s a gulf of difference between bitmap and vector graphics. Bitmap art is made of pixels and has a scale attached: each pixel represents black or white, or some gray or color tone.

For example, converting from vector to raster eliminates the overlapping layers in the original drawing. The same occurs when a multi-layer bitmap such as a Photoshop PSD image is converted to a ...