Raster is the classic image format that provides support to a wide variety of image files, including PNG, JPG and BMP. Each raster image can be seen as a dense array of color values. For raster images, resolution matters.

The amount of image details kept is measured in dots per inch (DPI). The higher the DPI value (that is, the more pixel dots kept in it), the clearer the resultant image would be, even when stretched to a larger size. Of course, the file size and computational resources needed for the rendering would increase accordingly.