Bitmapped Definition

Bitmapped image is represented with pixels that exist in a form of a grid. Each such pixel is most often called a “bit” of the image, as it carries some information concerning the color to be shown in the specified point. Quite literally, a pixel is just one “bit” of the color information used on your screen in order to display the picture on your screen. That could be a screen as small as an Apple Watch screen all the way up to a pixelated stadium screen.

Besides, aside from needing to know the three colors (red, green, blue) applied to a pixel, one more “bit” of data is where exactly that pixel is positioned in the image.

Moreover, these Bitmapped images have a fixed resolution and cannot be resized without losing image quality. An alternative to this as a raster image is a vector image that uses the built-in instructions in drawing lines on the contours rather than the use of the points. For this reason, in vector, the size changes infinitely without loss to image integrity unlike the points to complete a raster graph.