In my previous post, I had mentioned about the difference of usage between Macromedia Fireworks 8 and Adobe Photoshop. If you are not a graphic designer, you might have a question that asking, “What is Macromedia Fireworks 8?”.

Macromedia Fireworks 8 is a graphic design software that able to edit bitmap and create vector graphics. Bitmap are normal image file which are widely available in the internet nowadays. It is being constructed by millions and millions of small colour dot, which we called it as “pixels”. If you would like to get a view on what pixels are like, simply take a picture, no matter in *.jpg file or a *.bmp file, right click your mouse button on the image and choose “open with>paint”. Then take a clear look at the picture, you will see the whole picture are very nice when you see from the far. But, now you select the ‘zoom’ tool, and zoom in. Noticed that the picture become more blur and you can see many dots appear. This is how pixels looks like in up close position.

Meanwhile vector drawing consists of many lines which are methematically calculated and formed by lines, curves, shape or polygons. This means you can zoom up to the vector image, yet you still able to see the lines very clearly.

Please find the image display below, which can explain to you concepts of bitmap and vector graphics clearly.

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