What is Freepik? It is a search engine created specifically for web designers and graphic designers. It contains vector images, photos with excellent quality and many more elements; which allow you to create innovative and totally creative designs. This post will explain how to use or modify the vectors downloaded from Freepik in your designs.
What is a vector or vector image?
First of all, you need to define a vector or vector image. Refers to a digital illustration that is created from lines, points, and curves; in addition, it contains various effects that can be edited, such as color. This type of file is different from the commonly used .png or .jpg images.
Most vector images are available in files with an .eps or .Ai extension. Which can be used or modified adapting them to the needs of your project; without losing the quality of it. Vector images are made up of mathematical equations and different geometric figures; like lines, points, etc.
In addition, it can be edited in colors and shades to create images creatively and freely. All these settings for color, size, shapes, etc .; they can be done without losing quality. Vector files are lighter than high-resolution images; which makes this type of file ideal when adding them to presentations.
Freepik offers all these options for free and with a great variety of categories to adapt them to each need; so that you can download and use them.
How to use or modify the vectors downloaded from Freepik?
To use or modify the vectors downloaded from Freepik it is necessary to have certain specifications. For example, you need to use a vector graphics editor such as Corel Photo-Paint. Other options are: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk graphic (MAC and iOS), Gravit Designer, Inkscape or Vectr; the latter being free options.
These are the steps to use or modify the vectors downloaded from Freepik:
- Go to Freepik.es.
- The first thing you should do is choose the version you are going to use, the free or the Premium option. To do this you must go to the Filters menu and check the box “Free”. In that same menu, you can check the vector box to do a specific search.
- Download the vector or vector image to use. Remember that you must have the vector graphics editor to open the file and start the modification.
- Once the vector has been opened with the corresponding extension. You must take into account the layers of the file. You must unlock them to edit each item separately.
- Ungroup all objects to modify them individually. If you can’t ungroup items in the traditional way, it must be because the file has a clipping mask applied to it. In that case, you must right-click on the file and select the option «Drop clipping mask». In this way all the corresponding elements are ungrouped.
- Image text can also be edited with vector editors; since the original source of the file is usually not supported and therefore not available when opening the file. On the internet, there are options to download free fonts to use when modifying vectors.
Make creative designs with Freepik
If you have the vector editor, these will be the necessary tools to use or modify the vectors downloaded from Freepik, you can even edit downloaded templates. It is very simple and fast and will allow you to enjoy all the options that Freepik offers. It is a solution for creating creative designs without complications.
Remember that in addition to Adobe Illustrator, you can use free editors such as Gravit Designer in its web version. It allows importing and modifying vectors with extensions .eps, .svg and .Ai. Its interface is quite simple and easy to use and allows high-quality designs for free.