Vector

[TargetDesigns]

What is a vector image and are they easy or hard? Also can someone provide me with a tutorial.

 

[TargetDesigns]

Anyone?

 

[Albino]

a vector image is a Type of image

you cant have a tutorial on one really.

There are two main types of images, bitmapped and vector. Bitmaps consist of EVERY pixel in the image haveing a value/colour. Vetor images consist of instructions (start and end of line etc). Therefore, vector can be resized with out loss of quality, and their filessizes are very small (compared to bitmaps) as the store less information.

To create a bitmap image, use paint. For a vector, the best program is illustrator by adobe.

hope that clears it up a bit more, if not http://graphicdesign.about.com/library/weekly/aa042398.htm

 

[leviathon]

The BEST tutorial I can ask for...:

http://www.heathrowe.com/tuts/vector.asp

 

[TargetDesigns]

thanks guys, that really helped.

 

[ChrisKL]

Designing in vector is much harder, as your "brush" isn't a brush per se. It can be a royal pain in the rump if you're doing it node-by-node (like in that car tut). What makes it worse is different apps use different ways to get shapes drawn, too (and not everyone uses AI). Like with 3D apps, folks train in one vector program and stay with it, so chose your path wisely.

BTW, with the OCR rendering, folks can get photo perfect and scaleable vector graphics, but it's not good for the web -- those can be some HUGE files (did one of a small tooth at low grade print quality, and the file size uncompressed was over 35mb. Thus, the primary look with few nodes and colors).

CKL

 

[leviathon]

Designing in vector is much harder, as your "brush" isn't a brush per se. It can be a royal pain in the rump if you're doing it node-by-node (like in that car tut). What makes it worse is different apps use different ways to get shapes drawn, too (and not everyone uses AI). Like with 3D apps, folks train in one vector program and stay with it, so chose your path wisely.

BTW, with the OCR rendering, folks can get photo perfect and scaleable vector graphics, but it's not good for the web -- those can be some HUGE files (did one of a small tooth at low grade print quality, and the file size uncompressed was over 35mb. Thus, the primary look with few nodes and colors).

CKL

Yes but the instructions in the tutorial makes the best possible vector results, quality wise. I've tried other ways (mask rendering, etc.) and the result bugs me.

and BTW, vectors, like any other pictures can be easily compressed (theoritically rastorized) into JPEG or GIF, which greatly reduces the size of the picture. Nowadays size isn't a problem for computers anymore, more into Quality