Every once in a while, a tool comes along that makes a hard job much easier. Vector Magic is such a tool. Converting raster graphics to vector graphics is very difficult although a lot of products have come along to try. Let’s see why Vector Magic is so good. 

The image of a paw print on the top is a raster image. A raster image is made up of a fixed number of colored dots or pixels. Even if there image had no dots or “noise”, you still would not be able to make it larger without having it look worse. The image on the bottom is a vector image. Vector images are made up of math formulas and information that, when displayed, are calculated to reproduce exact copies of the original. Another great advantage to vector images is that they can be made larger or smaller without the loss of clarity, sharpness, and detail.

On the Vector Magic site, there are video tutorials along with numerous before and after examples. The price is also right - Free!

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Sending a picture of your lovely daughter is a great idea until your email program gags on that 2.5 MB file.  Or maybe you’ve just finished that PowerPoint file only to realize that you chocked it full of 27 MB worth of images. These, as well as many other, problems can be addressed with a very good, free online tool called Web Resizer.

You may or may not know that image sizes can be reduced significantly by changing the dimensions and quality levels. For example, an image that is 500 KB can be reduced to 85 KB with a 20% reduction in quality. This level of quality change is imperceptible and the file size is greatly reduced.

With a straight forward user interface, Web Resizer allows you to upload a picture and make a variety of changes including size and quality reduction in addition to cropping, brightness, color saturation, and sharpness. The two limitations that could come into play are the 5 BM upload file size limit and the 800 pixel width limit on the reduced file.

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