Graphics
Graphics files are image files be they cartoon-like or photographs, although some mention is made here about animation this section is not intended to cover this rather large topic. Here we are mainly concerned with static images.
One of the big problems with computers and the use of graphic images is that there is no single standard way of handling the files. There are at least 40 different methods and some of those methods have over 50 different ways of doing the job.
Having said that there are really only two types of method either the data is stored the raster way or the vector way. The first three pages here deal with that. I then discuss the 4 most important file types (giff, tiff, png and jpg). I then move on to discuss 4 of the many commercial packages available to edit graphics files.
- Raster Graphics
- vector Graphics
- Compression and interlacing
- gif format
- jpg format
- png format
- MS paint
- Paint shop Pro
- Photoshop
- Gimp
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