Thursday, February 10, 2011

Image types

- JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) - Used with most cameras, supports 8 bits per colour, compressed so they are small file sizes. Best Used on the web or online.
 
- GIF (Graphic interchange format) - mainly used to animate images and for small images like text, logos, etc. Supports 256 colors. Best Used for Web or Online.
 
- PNG (Portable Network Graphics - Used for image editing mainly, uses 16 million colors, can also be used for animating. Best used for web or online.
 
- BMP (Bitmap)  - Mainly used by windows OS, they are uncompressed therefore large sized files.
Best Used for Windows wallpaper.
 
- PSD (Adobe Photoshop data file) - A file which is for Photoshop.
Best Used for editing a image file.
 
The file size does vary as it depends on the size and the amount of colors in the image, and if its compressed or not.

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