What is electronic artwork?

Q: What is electronic artwork?
A. Electronic artwork is that which you produce on a computer program and can store it on a disk or floppy drive. There are many different applications that produce "art" but not all of them produce quality output.

Q: What are the main formats of electronic art?
A: Most graphics formats appear in in two forms - vector or raster. Typical raster formats are TIFF, BMP, GIF and JPEG. Typical vector formats are WMF Windows (Metafile), CDR (CorelDraw), AI (Adobe illustrator).


Raster Graphic Images are also referred to as bitmaps. Typical raster formats are TIFF, BMP, GIF, and JPEG. The benefit of using raster images is that it works well for photographs. When a raster image is sufficiently enlarged the clear crisp details are lost and it looks more like a mosaic of colors. Raster images in the correct size can work for process printing and website design. Most raster images, because of their complexity, cannot be easily converted to vector images by even the most advanced programs and graphic designers.

Vector Graphic Images are saved by computers as lines or curves. Typical vector formats are WMF (Windows MetaFile), CDR (CorelDraw), and AI (Adobe illustrator) When vector images are enlarged they are scaled accurately. The drawback of vector graphic images is that they do not reproduce photographs well and they are much better for drawings and logos. Vector images works best for both process and spot printing and cannot be used for web design. Vector images can easily converted to raster images by most graphic design programs like Adobe illustrator and Corel Draw.

Since there are many printing methods in the advertising specialty industry, we at AdXPress Imprints can assist you in preparation of your artwork for your particular advertising specialty, or promotional product you wish to have your logo or message on.