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Here Are Some Formats You May or May Not Know But Will Be Discussed in This Help-Sheet

The document discusses several common image file formats: JPEG - Used mainly for photographs and supports a wide range of colors with high compression ratios while maintaining quality. BMP - An uncompressed format invented by Microsoft that is not recommended due to large file sizes. GIF - Supports animation and uses 8-bit color with 256 color palette, so some colors may not display accurately. TIF - Raster format that produces sharp images but results in very large file sizes, best for scanning but not widely supported by web browsers. PNG - Similar to TIFF as a raster format but is platform independent, allowing use without certain programs, though files can be large in size.

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Here Are Some Formats You May or May Not Know But Will Be Discussed in This Help-Sheet

The document discusses several common image file formats: JPEG - Used mainly for photographs and supports a wide range of colors with high compression ratios while maintaining quality. BMP - An uncompressed format invented by Microsoft that is not recommended due to large file sizes. GIF - Supports animation and uses 8-bit color with 256 color palette, so some colors may not display accurately. TIF - Raster format that produces sharp images but results in very large file sizes, best for scanning but not widely supported by web browsers. PNG - Similar to TIFF as a raster format but is platform independent, allowing use without certain programs, though files can be large in size.

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

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JPEG

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 4/17/12

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. DONT USE ON MACS!

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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 4/17/12 might not show.

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
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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 dont need a certain program to use it which is a big advantage
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This file is supported by more recent

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