Graphic Design: Have you ever heard of graphics formats or image file formats? Yes we all do, however not many of us realize it. We see formats everywhere on the internet, emails, and your regular digital images. The filename extensions for the graphics formats or image file formats: .tiff, .jpg, .gif,.png, .bmp, and etc. Look into your email attachment, most of the images contain either .jpg, .gif, or .png (most popular filename extensions). "Image file formats are standardized means of organizing and storing digital images. Image files are composed of digital data in one of these formats that can be rasterized for use on a computer display or printer. An image file format may store data in uncompressed, compressed, or vector formats. Once rasterized, an image becomes a grid of pixels, each of which has a number of bits to designate its color equal to the color depth of the device displaying it." (Wikipedia) "JPG or JPEG = Joint Photographic Expert Group format is commonly used to display photographs and other continuous-tone images in HTML files over the web and in other online media. GIF = Graphics Interchange Format is a standard for displaying graphics on the World Wide Web and other online services. Because it compresses image data without losing detail, its compression method is called lossless. PNG = Portable Network Graphics uses adjustable, lossless compression to display 24‑bit photographs or solid-color images on the World Wide Web and in other online media. TIFF = Tagged Image File Format is a flexible bitmap image format supported by virtually all painting, image-editing, and page-layout applications. Also, virtually all desktop scanners can produce TIFF images. BMP = Windows Bitmap is the standard Windows bitmap image format on DOS and Windows-compatible computers." (Adobe)
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