An image, in digital form, is a representation of a photograph, drawing, or text document. Mathematically described as a two-dimensional function, it consists of pixels, each with a specific brightness value. Digital images come in three basic file formats: Vector, Raster, and Meta. Vector images are defined by mathematical formulas, allowing for high quality and small file sizes. Raster images are composed of pixels, forming a dot-pattern image, suitable for photographs and scanned images. Meta images combine vector and raster information, useful for including text and annotations in raster images while maintaining quality.
