There are many excellent commercial products for creating graphics with Windows. Painting Programs and Drawing Programs Programs in the first category build up an image by assigning a color to every pixel of the screen that falls inside the boundaries of the image. Programs in the second category build up an image by assembling lines, arcs, etc. Paint programs are generally easier to learn to use, but drawing programs can give higher quality results for many forms of graphics.
Some programs combine both painting and drawing capabilities.
It is normally wise to save a version of the image in this format since you may wish to modify it later. However, in most instances, the native format for the graphics program cannot be used directly for images to be displayed by Web browsers. As we will now discuss, BMP format can be converted to the GIF and JPEG formats that are most useful for Web images.