Today's post is a bit of a boring one, but useful nonetheless, and should hopefully help you understand different file fomats a bit more. I'm going to do a brief explanation on 4 file formats most commonly used within the photography/graphics industry in bullet point form just to explain the basics.
- .jpeg is the most common file format to be used for photographs as it enables you to transfer/upload the images quickly between sources. However, image quality is lost slightly every time you save a jpeg as the file size decreases slightly each time.
- .pdf refers to a document file and stands for ‘Portable Document Format’. Storing a file as a PDF means that you will be able to open it with most software therefore it’s accessible from any device.
- .gif stands for ‘Graphic Interchange Format’. They are commonly used to save files high in colour with very simple shapes. Unlike JPEG files, GIFs have the ability to store transparent areas of the image, allowing them to blend into website backgrounds and they can also be animated to store moving images.
- .tiff stands for a ‘Tagged Image File Format’ and is commonly used by graphic designers to save graphics images.
I hope this post has helped you to understand the difference between varying file formats so that in future you'll easily know how best to save your work.
Thanks for reading!
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