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Hey there once again guys! Today I was feeling a bit on the informative, so I decided to enlighten you all with some information about digital images.  We see digital images all the time. In our phone, in our computer....anywhere. But, even if we do see it on a daily basis, do we really know what it is and how it works? To start off, we have two types of digital images, vector graphics and raster graphics. Vector graphics use geometrical primitives like lines, shapes or polygons. Made out of mathematical equations that result on an image. The good thing about this type of images sis that it isn't made of pixels, so it cannot loose its quality if you make it bigger or smaller. Raster images, on the other hand, are made of a grid of pixels or points of color, and they can be stored as different format files. However, unlike vector graphics, its features and quality depend on a series of factors. For a better understanding of what I am about to tell you, you can take a look to the cha...