File Formats

There are different formats for every file, for photos, movies, and audios.

 

The most common file formats for Images:

Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)

This file format it can support upto 16.8 million colors

The images are compressed that also made its resolution smaller.

Graphic Interchange Format (GIF)

The file format for animations.

It can support 250 different colors

Portable Network Graphics (PNG)

 It is the hybrid of JPEG and GIF which can support animations

Photoshop Document (PSD)

It is the layered file used in Adobe Photoshop

The most common file formats for Movies:

Moving Pictures Experts Group MPG

It is like JPEG file format but for movies or videos

MOV

The Quicktime format developed by Apple

MP4

Windows Media Video 

Most common fie formats for Audios:

MP3

WAV

WMA

DVF

LOSSLESS - it is the type of format wherein the original resolutions of the images are sustained. Like PSD which is a layered  file images and TIFF a flat image

LOSSY - the type of formats where the resolutions are compressed resulting to smaller resolutions or low qualities of images

RASTER vs VECTOR

RASTER

It is the same as bitmap, the images are made up of pixels.

It is resolution dependent. When scaling up the image up to a certain point the images pixelate and has lower resolution

VECTOR

The images are made up of connecting line, curves and points.

The size of the images does not affect the resolution and sharpness of the images are still retained.