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Bitmap and Vector Image types

Bitmap and Vector There are many similarities and differences between bitmap and vector, aswell as advantages and disadvantages between the two of them, this blog looks to explain some of these similarities and differences Bitmap and Vector compared. There are quite a few bitmap image types, such as bmp, jpeg, gif and png just to name a few; as for Vector there are fewer, such as svg or ai. The main difference between bitmap and vectors is in the way that images are processed, in a bitmap file the image is made up of individual squares, to make an image look like what it is meant to show you, there must be at least hundreds of thousands if not millions of these in a single image, these are shown via pixels on a monitor screen, that light up according to the information being sent by the image to your computer and then to your screen. A vector image is not just a set of blocks that make something glow a certain colour, it is a file that contains not only the location of the blocks but a...