RASTER RGB and INDEXED Increased Resolution Quality Comparison

-INDEXED-

-With the INDEXED color mode the image looks very JAGGED and choppy at the edges of the image

-This happens because INDEXED color mode only has a certain number of colors making it difficult for the computer to blend the colors together creating the JAGGED edges we see here.

-RGB-

-With RGB color mode the image looks way smoother in the edges and overall is a better image compared to its UGLY TWIN(Indexed)

-The smoothness of the image is thanks to the RGB color mode, with its 16.7 million combinations of color, the edges of the image can smoothly transcend from one color to the other with out showing the pixel.

VECTOR File Size Comparison

- SIMPLE


 -This image is Vectorized and is using image trace using 3 colors, so its a SIMPLE file using minimal colors.
-All the anchor points in the image surround the fill ins of the picture, for example the big yellow, black and white fill ins.

-FILE SIZE= 2.4 MB

 - COMPLEX

-This Vectorized image is using image trace on HIGH FIDELITY PHOTO,which traces as much information as possible making the image COMPLEX.
- The amount of anchor points in this image literally covered the whole image, turning it blue with dots, since HIGH FIDELITY trace captures all the little lines and shadows.
- Compared to the SIMPLE image the COMPLEX one has countless more details, there fore it will contain way more anchor points.

-FILE SIZE= 5.2 MB

-LINE

-This is an image of a line, made in ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR its a VECTOR image

-Being a simple LINE it is the base of all VECTOR images, creating it does not take many anchor points. Since it is a LINE you can actually count the number of anchor points which are 2, the other TWO images in the other hand would take a while to count every anchor point.

-FINAL SIZE= 1.6 MB

VECTOR Self-PORTRAIT

- In this assignment our goal was to transform our selfie from a RASTER image to a VECTOR image using ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR.

-RASTER- is an image that contains pixels.

-VECTOR-is an image that uses mathematical equations to create lines does not contain pixels.

- the process to transform these images was nice and simple

1) First, I created a LETTER document in PORTRAIT orientation, once that is done then drag or FILE-PLACE the image.

2) After opening your image in ILLUSTRATOR, press the SHIFT key then click the mouse to resize image proportionately (make sure to let go of mouse button first THEN shift key) try to fit image in white space.

3) Once completed with those steps, make sure to save your progress for it will be painful if any is accidentally erased.

4) Select image with the SELECTION TOOL, then select IMAGE TRACE in the drop down menu, this will give you different types of tracing of your image, pick the best one for your image.

5) After your done with that use the DIRECT SELECT tool and click on different areas of the image, this is when it is clear that the image is no longer a RASTER image but a VECTOR image made up of shapes and fills.

INDEXED COLORS and Quality

-when trying to make a File size a little smaller or reduce the total amount of colors in a photo INDEXED color mode is the way to go. Since you can choose how many colors to include in your image.
-with INDEXED color mode you can specifically choose how many colors you want to show up in your image
-for example in this image here I only have 6 colors, the result of that is a simplified version of the picture I originally took.
-since there are less colors in the picture that means that my file size will be smaller since there is less DATA in the image

more COLORS = more DATA = BIGGER file size



                                                         

- If you want your image more detailed you can add more colors in the mix as well making certain parts of the image more clear.
-Obviously the more colors you add to the image the bigger the file size will be
- This color mode comes in handy when dealing with images with simple color palates, so you can manually remove or add as many colors as you can to reserve space or to blast the image with color.

JPEG COMPRESSION and FILE SIZE

-When saving in a JPEG, you want to boost your quality all the way up, or your image will suffer by not looking its best.
-This image was saved in JPEG quality of 0
-File Size does not change






























- This is the same JPEG image but done in quality of 60, this makes a very good difference compared to the quality 0 picture above. But still not the best you can do.











-At quality of 100, the best possible quality is achieved through a JPEG and your image will not have the ugly choppiness that quality 0 had.

PEN TOOL

-to get a CURVED arrow at the Start of a curved line you must get the pen tool create a line click and hold the middle to create the curve then using the tool bar above click on "window" then stroke.
- once you have clicked on stroke place the arrow in the beginning of the line by choosing the box on the left side for the type of arrow to choose

 

 

 

-to get an ORGANIC shape with the pen tool start by clicking the mouse and holding the mouse button, once you make your line as long as it needs to be, that is when you let go of the button and the line will curve any way you want until you click one more time










-when making this kind of line, You must go and choose your pen tool and create a normal curved line. once you are done with that you go to WINDOW and click on STROKE, it will show you a box with many options on what to do with your line. by clicking spaces, you can choose to turn your line into a dotted line.
- you can control every thing from the thickness of the line to how far apart you want the spaces to be.

SHAPES