Stock Vector Art

Stock Vector Art links to the cheapest and finest quality stock vector art available on the internet. The stock artwork presented here was created by today’s best vector illustrators and artists and is available in universal formats including Illustrator .AI files and true vector .EPS files. To add even more value, most images are royalty-free.

What is Vector Art?

Vector graphics are composed of curves connected by points, mathematically defined. When you want to make the curves and points larger or smaller, the mathematical formula is redefined, and the circle keeps it’s perfect crisp lines. Creature House Expression, Macromedia Freehand, and CorelDRAW are three examples of vector programs. These programs are considered object oriented because everything you make, even text, is an object that can be manipulated independent of other objects and the background (which can also be an object if you put something there, such as a rectangle covering the page.) You can arrange them so they are in front of each other, in back of each other, stack them, or group them. Vector programs are also sometimes called drawing programs, while programs like Adobe Photoshop and Procreate’s Painter are Photo-manipulation, or raster programs. In contrast, a raster program constructs what you see on screen by using pixels. When you enlarge the picture, the only way it gets bigger is for the pixels to get bigger too, and you lose the nice edges. So when you work in a raster program your best bet is to make your picture the size at which you’ll ultimately be using it, because you will be limited in how much sizing you can actually do. And that is the beauty of working with vectors! You can work on a 4″ object and enlarge it to 4′ if you want. And it’ll look just as good at 4′ as it did at 4″.

What is Royalty-Free?

A term often used in photography CD collections or on CD collections of images. May also refer to the purchase of images from online sources. An initial fee is paid for the purchase of the CD, online images or a collection of photos, and the purchaser may use the image(s) as often as required within the license terms and conditions without paying for the use of the image each time the image is used or imprinted. [Source]