Is this image vectorized?

[80sarcadegames]

Is this image vectorized?

How can you tell if it is or is not?

I zoomed into it as high of a zoom that MS Paint would allow and I noticed some
of the "blocky" edges to the lines when you zoom in as close as you can
get with MS Paint.

[drventure]

It's a jpg, so no, it's not vectorized. It might have been (and kind of looks like it was) at one point, but the specific file you uploaded can't be a vector image.

[80sarcadegames]

It's a jpg, so no, it's not vectorized. It might have been (and kind of looks like it was) at one point, but the specific file you uploaded can't be a vector image.

Thank you.

 

So jpgs definitely are never able considered vectorized???

A Vector image must be either a .AI or a .EPS or a .PDF  or .TIF etc?

If a file image is a .AI OR .EPS or .PDF or .TIF does that mean it is considered vectorized?

Can a file image be a .AI or .EPS or .PDF or .TIF and NOT be vectorized?

I know that you must image trace with a tool or by hand to vectorize a raster image but can you then save it as a .JPG and have it keeps its vectorized state?

[drventure]

AI and EPS are both vector formats,

PDFs I +THINK+ can contain vector as well as raster images.

TIFs are typically raster. I don't believe they can contain vector images.

for AI and EPS, yes, both these formats +can+ container raster images. Imagine going into a draw program like Illustrator and pasting a screenshot into the image. Yes, it saves as AI, but that image is raster.

As for saving a vector image as JPG, no, I don't believe that's possible. JPG is really intended as a lossy raster format.

Oh, and WMF files (windows metafile) is another example of a vector format (albeit a quite old one).


Finally, Inkscape is a very popular opensource vector drawing package (a bit like illustrator).

[SlammedNiss]

AI and EPS are both vector formats,

PDFs I +THINK+ can contain vector as well as raster images.

TIFs are typically raster. I don't believe they can contain vector images.

for AI and EPS, yes, both these formats +can+ container raster images. Imagine going into a draw program like Illustrator and pasting a screenshot into the image. Yes, it saves as AI, but that image is raster.

As for saving a vector image as JPG, no, I don't believe that's possible. JPG is really intended as a lossy raster format.

Oh, and WMF files (windows metafile) is another example of a vector format (albeit a quite old one).


Finally, Inkscape is a very popular opensource vector drawing package (a bit like illustrator).

.ai files doesn't necessarily mean it is a vector file, only that it was created using Adobe Illustrator. And yes, .pdf can also have both raster and vector images. I typically save my vectors as .pdf because when emailing proofs, a .pdf file is easily opened.

Btw, you're also forgetting .svg files. (Scalable Vector Graphics)

[thatpurplestuff]

Just to add to/clarify the above statements, TIF's can contain vector data in their layers as well.

[opt2not]

^ Photoshop .psd's can also as well.