Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Common
File
Formats
- JPEG Files
- Uses
- JPEG stands
for Joint
Photographic
Expert Group
- It is one of the
main file formats
for images on
the Web.
- Ideal for Photographs and digital
images.
- JPEG compresses
the original image.
- Uses 16 million
- Advantages
- Maximum colours of
16.7 million colours
- Can be opened and viewed
in almost all image viewing
applications.
- JPEG images are
compressed-smaller in
storage size and easier to
attach to an email
- Disadvantages
- Because images are
compressed, it has a
significant loss in quality.
- JPEG files cannot have
transparent backgrounds.
- GIF Files
- Uses
- GIF stands for
Graphical Interchange
Format
- It is one of the main file formats
for images that is used on the
Internet
- Used for simple
graphics
- Uses compression to
make the file size smaller
- Advantages
- They are small in size as
the image file is
compressed.
- Disadvantages
- Only 256 colours are used so
does not look the same as the
original image.
- PNG files
- Uses
- Stands for
Portable Network
Graphics
- Uses
compression that
creates a
compressed
image without
losing any quality.
- Uses 16 million colours
- Advantages
- The image does not lose any
quality when compressed,
- Has a wide amount of colours
- Disadvantages
- File size is slightly larger
than JPEG and GIF.
- TIFF Files
- Uses
- Stands for Tagged Image File Format.
- Bitmap image format
- Ideally suited for scanned images, imagesd
with continuous colours and photographs.
- Advantages
- Widely used
- Can be easily modified
- Can have a wide range of colours.
- Disadvantages
- Large file size-
take up a lot of
storage space
- Takes a long time to
upload and download to
the internet
- PSD Files
- Uses
- Stands for Photoshop
Document
- Popular piece of
software used for
creating and modifying
images
- Advantages
- Produces very high
quality images
- Disadvantages
- File sizes are large as
there is no
compression
- Takes a
while to
upload and
download to
the internet
- BMP files
- Uses
- Pictures using
Windows Paint
can be saved as
BMP files as
digital
photographs can
be too
- Advantages
- It supports millions of
colours
- Disadvantages
- Large file size
- Takes a long time to
upload and download
- EPS files
- Uses
- Stands for Encapsulated PostScript
- Standard format for
importing and exporting
PostScript files
- Can contain
text,
graphics
and images
- Advantages
- Has many essentials
features such as colour
management and colour
modes
- Disadvantages
- Large file size