Here Are Some Formats You May Or May Not Know But Will Be Discussed In This Help-sheet.

• Stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group.• This is very versatile format as it can be sent via

email as it can change size. It supports compression very well as it saves a as a very high quality image.

• It is mainly used for photography• A disadvantage is that JPEG doesn’t work very well

with simpler images those with not much detail or colour

• This could be perfect for taking photographs for editing on a logo.

JPEG

BMP• BMP File Format or simply a Bitmap.• Bitmap is raster file• BMP is a file format which was invented by

Microsoft. There is really no reason to ever use this format because Free Creative use only Macs.

• Does not support compression • DON’T USE ON MACS!

GIF• GIF stands for Graphic Interchange format• Gif is file format manly used recurring moving

images or animation, the two images at the top are examples of GIFS

• The format only support 8 bits per pixel and also only has 256 colour palette which means some colours might not show.

• GIF is highly supported by the internet• You would use this to make an animation of the logo

to go on the website

TIF• TIF stands for Tagged image file • It is a raster file so it saves its images in pixels

this has its ups and downs because with this the image is much smoother and sharp but it also makes the file huge.

• Web browsers also do not support this file but scanners work best with them

• You would use TIF when did to scan something in such as drawing ideas of the logos

PNG• PNG stands for portable network graphics.• Similar to TIFF because it is a raster file so the same

problem occurs with the file being very big.• It also is a platform independent format which means

you don’t need a certain program to use it which is a big advantage

• This file is supported by more recent web browsers but may cause troubles with old web browsers

• This could be used to put our logo on our website