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

• Stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group.• It is mainly used for photographs and also a wide

range of colours. It can achieve high compression ratios even whilst maintaining high image quality. GIF compression is unkind to such images. JPG works by analyzing images and discarding kinds of information that the eye is least likely to notice. It stores information as 24 bit color. Important: the degree of compression of JPG is adjustable.

JPEG

BMP• BMP is an uncompressed proprietary format

invented by Microsoft. There is really no reason to ever use this format but here some information on it.

• BMP File Format, also known as Bitmap Image File or Device Independent Bitmap (DIB) file format or simply a Bitmap.

• 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

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

this has it up 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 scanner work best with them

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