About Vectoraster
Vectoraster 8, macOS graphics software for creating custom vector or animated halftones and patterns based on images, videos or gradients. Download and try for free!
Vectoraster is a graphics design app for creating custom vector halftones, stipple designs or animated raster effects based on imported images or dynamic elements like gradients, text or noise fields.
The halftone patterns and point shapes can be changed and varied across the pattern to produce many different styles. The resulting effect is always shown, with the preview updating in real time as you change parameters. The result can then easily be exported as vectors to SVG or PDF files, as images to JPEG, PNG or TIFF, or simply copied and pasted into most graphics software.
With Vectoraster 8 you can now also animate all these effects to create transitions, video backgrounds or other effects to use in your motion design projects. The result can be exported either as GIF, MOV or MPEG4 video files or a sequence of frame pdf or image files.
Inspiration
There is a collection of projects that could work as inspiration for what you could use Vectoraster for here on Behance:
Inspiration on Behance
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Vectoraster since it was posted on our website on 2015-03-12 22:14:13.
The latest version is 8.6.3 and it was updated on 2026-06-18 05:07:30. See below the changes in each version.
Vectoraster version 8.6.3
Updated At: 2025-11-18
Changes: Changes and improvements
- Fixed issue where overwriting existing files when exporting could result in broken files in some situations.
- Fixed SVG exports using a background color with transparency being exported as a solid color instead.
- Fixed SVG exports in trial mode not getting the text warning explaining points have been removed due to trial mode.
- Fixed some minor UI panel layout issues.
- Improved handling of network issues when validating licenses.
Our new parametric design app Paragraphic has now been released. Try it for free at https://paragraphic.design.
Vectoraster version 8.6.2
Updated At: 2025-07-07
Changes: Changes and improvements
- Multiple source layers with the same name (like gradients, noise etc) now get an automatic number added to tell them apart.
- You can now export animations to numbered CSV point data files.
- Fixed drag and drop imported files getting incorrect names.
- Fixed custom color gradient layers resulting in flipped gradients in some situations.
- Fixed some issues with the export option to convert background color to the point color colorspace when using grayscale point colors.
- Fixed some svg custom path parsing issues.
- Fixed export done notifications after multi-file exports.
- Fixed some potential compatibility issues for the upcoming macOS 16.
Our new parametric design app Paragraphic has now been released. Try it for free at https://paragraphic.design.
Vectoraster version 8.6.1
Updated At: 2024-12-18
Changes: Changes and improvements
- Fixes Finder .VRaster file previews and thumbnails on macOS 15 (Sequoia).
- Adds export option to export SVG files using px units instead of the default mm.
Our new parametric design app Paragraphic is now available in Early Access. Try it for free at https://paragraphic.design.
Vectoraster version 8.6.1
Updated At: 2024-12-18
Changes: Changes and improvements
- Fixes Finder .VRaster file previews and thumbnails on macOS 15 (Sequoia).
- Adds export option to export SVG files using px units instead of the default mm.
Our new parametric design app Paragraphic has now been released. Try it for free at https://paragraphic.design.
Vectoraster version 8.6.0
Updated At: 2024-09-18
Changes: Changes and improvements
- New Arc point shape, for drawing dynamic arc shapes and lines with variable arc angle.
- New Point offset transform, a new variable X,Y offset available in Point transform that visually moves the points without changing the measuring location like the raster pattern distortions, allowing for more control of point alignment and making complex patterns.
- Improved license check redundancy for situations when the main license server is not working properly.
Bug fixes
- Fixed disabling Point aspect scaling while set to vary dynamically would still apply aspect scale.
- Fixed Fill opacity parameter being shown even when it had no effect due to fill being turned off.
- Fixed colors loading incorrectly from some older format Vectoraster files.
Check out our new parametric design project Paragraphic at https://paragraphic.design and follow the development if you're interested.
Vectoraster version 8.6.0
Updated At: 2024-09-18
Changes: Changes and improvements
- New Arc point shape, for drawing dynamic arc shapes and lines with variable arc angle.
- New Point offset transform, a new variable X,Y offset available in Point transform that visually moves the points without changing the measuring location like the raster pattern distortions, allowing for more control of point alignment and making complex patterns.
- Improved license check redundancy for situations when the main license server is not working properly.
Bug fixes
- Fixed disabling Point aspect scaling while set to vary dynamically would still apply aspect scale.
- Fixed Fill opacity parameter being shown even when it had no effect due to fill being turned off.
- Fixed colors loading incorrectly from some older format Vectoraster files.
Our new parametric design app Paragraphic is now available in Early Access. Try it for free at https://paragraphic.design.
Vectoraster version 8.5.11
Updated At: 2024-04-17
Changes: Fixes and improvements
- Fixes not being able to dynamically vary optional parameters like additional point scaling and additional point rotation.
- Fixes tabbing between min/max value fields for newly enabled dynamic varied parameters.
Vectoraster version 8.5.10
Updated At: 2024-03-26
Changes: With this update Vectoraster is now also available to purchase on the macOS Apple App Store:
Vectoraster 8 on App Store
The application will still be available to purchase outside of the App Store as well and this change should not affect the functionality of the application. Future updates will continue to be released both the App Store and non-App Store version, so you'll get the same functionality regardless of version. It will however not be possible to convert an App Store purchase to a license for the non-App Store version or the other way around.
Vectoraster version 8.5.9
Updated At: 2024-03-13
Changes: Changes and improvements
- Fixes some minor macOS 14 compatibility issues.
- Fixes some sandbox access restriction issues.
Vectoraster version 8.5.8
Updated At: 2024-01-23
Changes: - Fix generation of innermost spiral raster points when generating line rasters.
- New setting to automatically convert background color colorspace to match point color (for CMYK exports for example).
- Add clipping rect to exported SVGs.
- Changes to export file writing and saving APIs.
- Changes to file reading handling when importing source files APIs.
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