In the first of this 'FOSS v proprietary' series we looked at some of the best software for editing and manipulating bitmap images. With digital photography such programs replace the earlier darkroom ...

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an open W3C standard for describing two-dimensional graphics in a different way than traditional computer images, which are all bitmaps of some kind. A bitmap or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everyone knows about GIMP, the open source graphics editor that competes with Photoshop for editing bitmap images, or images with ...

Open source software useful when dealing with so-called SVG format vector format image files. You can convert an opened SVG file to a PNG file of any resolution. It is also possible to create images ...

The first part of this two-part feature on vector editing tools outlined the history and background of vector image creation and examined Inkscape, an open-source vector editing application, and ...

A vector graphics file is an image that can be made infinitely large or small without losing quality. Common vector file types include .AI (Adobe Illustrator), .EPS (Encapsulated Postscript), and .SVG ...