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Graphic Software

Program for depicting information in graphic form, including charts, diagrams, and signs. This enhances understanding of financial statement accounts, trends, and rela-tionships. Graphs may be turned into photographic slides, overhead transparencies, and images on paper.

 
 
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In computer graphics, graphics software or image editing software is a program or collection of programs that enable a person to manipulate visual images on a computer.

A screenshot from the raster graphics editor KolourPaint
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A screenshot from the raster graphics editor KolourPaint
A screenshot of the vector graphics editor xfig
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A screenshot of the vector graphics editor xfig

Computer graphics can be classified into two distinct categories: raster graphics and vector graphics. Before learning about computer software that manipulates or displays these graphics types, you should be familiar with both.

Many graphics programs focus exclusively on either vector or raster graphics, but there are a few that combine them in interesting and sometimes unexpected ways. It is simple to convert from vector graphics to raster graphics, but going the other way is harder. Some software attempts to do this.

Most graphics programs have the ability to import and export one or more graphics file formats.

Several graphics programs support animation, or digital video. Vector graphics animation can be described as a series of mathematical transformations that are applied in sequence to one or more shapes in a scene. Raster graphics animation works in a similar fashion to film-based animation, where a series of still images produces the illusion of continuous movement.

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