i have two questions:

If you were just looking, would you be able to tell the difference between a vexel and a vector?

Is one better than the other?

vexel done in photoshop
vector done in illustrator


there both looks alike, but illustrator might be the best.

i'm pretty sure you can't tell just by looking at the vector/vexel, but some people get really picky at it. at there is a big difference about it. i would recommend illustrator, tho it'll be much more difficult. sorry, let me rephrase.."challenging"

to me -- both of them look good.

i can't really tell the difference unless someone tells me. if you didn't tell anyone what program you used, [or if it's a vexel/vector] not many people would be able to tell.

hrmm I'm not sure but I think vector images when you zoom on them like a million times they still look really crisp and clear... but vexel images looses quality when you zoom in a milion times. =] hrmm not too sure but most ppl can't tell the difference. No biggie.

No. You can't tell the difference.

yes you can.

aren't the two programs based on different grahpic types?

like photoshop is raster based and illustrator is vector based.. so a true vector is something that won't lose quality... vexel is produced in the same manner but is still a raster image because it gets pixelly after zooming in

Even if you use Illustrator to draw an actual vector, you usually have to use a .gif, .jpg, or .png format for the web as you would with Photoshop. But since you're saving them as a different file type either way, if you try to enlarge the image, both are going to be pixelly, regardless of whether it was done in Illustrator or Photoshop. Only the original Illustrator .ai file will look different from all the others but this is not what we, the viewers, see when someone posts up their "vector". We see the "compressed" version, not the original vector format.

Vector rarely means "vector" anymore. Its been turned into a style, rather than a type of file. Throwing "vexel" into the mix only makes things more confusing. If you want to use the correct terminology, why not just call it a "vexel" a "raster" instead?

Eh, I hope that all makes sense. To sum it all up, either way, whether created in Photoshop or Illustrator, "vexel" or "vector", once saved for the web and posted for viewers' pleasure, you can't tell the difference or which program it was created in.

They both look the same magnified at 100%, but vectors you can zoom them in as many times as you want and they'll still look the same (of course the size will change, but nothing will look blurred or pixelated).

roxy's right... unless someone posts the original .ai or flash file that allows us to zoom-in (e.g. - freezbox)... then it technically isn't a vector ;x haha... we just refer to it as "vectors" because they were created in a vector based program... as opposed to vexels that are created in raster based... but yah in reality when they're posted, they're all just rasters ;x


oh wait - i forgot to add that yes, there is a difference in quality ;x generally those created in vector based have a much smoother look than those created in vexel -_-... at least on my monitor ;x

I don't think you can tell the difference.. because you're going to have to optimize the vector into a .jpg or .gif or .png.

I like vectoring better though.