Dashboard developer iSlayer has posted an interesting article examining the implications resolution independence (a new feature in Leopard) will have on icon design. Even before the issue of ...

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. The ...

Before understanding the science behind vector animation, it's important to know the difference between the two major graphic types: bitmap and vector graphics.

Using a layout metaphor, Canvas places both bitmap and vector objects onto an illustration, publication, animation, or slide show.

These are easy to export from either Illustrator or Freehand. Both these apps allow you to combine vector images and bitmap images, and to export them in a variety of formats.

At its core, Expression 3 is a vector-based drawing program. And though it imports and exports bitmap images, it ingeniously disguises vector drawings so they seem like pixel-based images.

The Effects tab now allows designers to work with both bitmap and vector designs nondestructively, allowing users to go back to make an adjustment without undoing everything done since then.

Features and Capabilities Drawings created within the new Autodesk Graphic suite of apps can be exported as bitmap and vector files, and used in any applications that support PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF ...

Most graphics applications work with a particular type of graphic file. For example, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, PhotoImpact and Microsoft Photo editor handle bitmap files but can’t touch vector-based ...