What is a vector??, ????? Options

[xosteffanator]

What is a vector?
Google was my friend but it didn't find anyhting
I embraced the search button but it didn't embrace me back
lol
But really, what is a vector?

[*incoherent*]

h/o let me find an example to show you.

here:

(made by alk3)

its like a computerized image, overlayed a real image.

you pretty much take a real image and paint over top it so that it looks real.

This post has been edited by incoherent: Oct 2 2005, 07:50 PM

[moorepocket]

a raster based program.

[Alk3]

^ What?...

A vector (in terms of what I think you're talking about) is an image based on a posterized raster image.

Something similar to that is a "vexel" (which is actually just a word that someone in a message board I used to post at made up... haha). A vexel is like a vector, but it's made in a raster-based program (i.e. psp) instead.

One difference between a vector and a vexel is that if you resize a vector, you'll see that it doesn't get all "pixelly," whereas a vexel does.

I think I may have sidetracked. lmao

[Ington]

^ Yeah. I was like, 'what the hell?' reading the definitions.

A vector image is an image that doesn't get pixelly no matter what its size is changed to.

I think you mean the vexels/vectors that you see around here, such as Michelle's vector. Those are completely different from vector images.

h/o let me find an example to show you.

here:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v15/shel...im/6bd30a23.jpg
(made by alk3)

its like a computerized image, overlayed a real image.

you pretty much take a real image and paint over top it so that it looks real.

You're not allowed to use overlay when vexeling. ._.

[*mipadi*]

Since both "vector" and "raster" have been used without a real definition, I'll throw one in real quick:

• A vector image is an image in which the graphical components are stored as mathematical equations, thus making the image scalable without a loss of quality (because the larger or smaller image can just be recalcuated using the stored equation). These types of images often look like drawings.
• A raster image forms a picture by storing the color values of each pixel. This results in higher image quality than a vector, but the image does not scale well; when made larger, more pixels have to be added, and the color values have to be calculated using the existing surrounding pixels as a reference; thus, the image looks "pixelated" when blown up. Raster images often look more like photographs than drawings.
  • A vexel is a raster-based image made to look like a vector-based image.

Generally speaking, raster-based images are edited using Adobe Photoshop, whereas vector-based images are edited using Adobe Illustrator.

[ChasingLife87]

A vexel is like a vector, but it's made in a raster-based program (i.e. psp) instead.

Going on with the sidetrack-ed-ness... PSP has vector layers, and so does Illustrator, but Photoshop only has raster layers.

[Alk3]

Going on with the sidetrack-ed-ness... PSP has vector layers, and so does Illustrator, but Photoshop only has raster layers.

Hm... I think you may have mixed up PSP & Photoshop in that statement, lol.

Photoshop has vector layers... in fact, you can make a vector in photoshop then open it in illustrator, thereby making it a real vector.

PSP has vector layers, too, but I think it's primarily a raster-based program. Is there a way to save all the vector layers in PSP in a format other than .psp without having the layers merged/rasterized?

[Mulder]

Hm... I think you may have mixed up PSP & Photoshop in that statement, lol.

Photoshop has vector layers... in fact, you can make a vector in photoshop then open it in illustrator, thereby making it a real vector.

PSP has vector layers, too, but I think it's primarily a raster-based program. Is there a way to save all the vector layers in PSP in a format other than .psp without having the layers merged/rasterized?

sigh....not that i know of.

[steezahh]

h/o let me find an example to show you.

here:

(made by alk3)

its like a computerized image, overlayed a real image.

you pretty much take a real image and paint over top it so that it looks real.

exacly!

[towntown2]

so where does one find a good vector tutorial?

P.S. : does Macro Firework work with making vectors too?

[freeflow]

^ if it has a pen tool yes.
Google is a place to find some or http://vexels.net