File Formats.

Types of file format:

• JPEG
• TIF
• RAW

 JPEG

• ‘Lossy’ (Small and looses detail)
•  Commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography.
• Compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality.

TIF

• Lossless/Large image
•  Storing raster graphics images.
• Popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and photographers.

RAW

• Can’t directly edit this type of file format, unless using photo processing to manipulate, e.g. photoshop.
•  A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner.
• ‘Raw ingredients’-have to convert to TIF or JPEG if want to export it and upload on internet, for example.