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

2. • Stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group.
• This is very versatile format as it can be sent
round a lot. It supports compression very well
as it saves a as a very high quality image.
• It is mainly used for photgraphy
• A disadvantage is that JPEG doesn’t work very
well with simpler images those with not much
detail or colour

3. • BMPFile Format or simply a Bitmap.
• BMPis a file format which was invented by
Microsoft. There is really no reason to ever
use this format but here some information on
it because Free Creative use only Macs.
• BMP File Formator simply a Bitmap.
• Does not support compression
• DON’T USE ON MACS!

4. • 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 might not show.
• GIF is highly supported by the internet

5. • Tif stands for Tagged image file
• It is a raster file so it saves its images in pixels
this has its ups 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
scanners work best with them

6. • 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 don’t need a certain program to use it
which is a big advantage
• This file is supported by more recent web
browsers but may cause troubles with old web
browsers