Other types of digital photograph storage files
August 24th 2006 14:58
In this post we explore further into digital photograph store file - TYPES!
Besides storing the photos as .JPEG and .GIF you can also categorise them into numerous other file types. I have picked couple of it that are in common usage.
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) - this file type is an alternative to the ‘.GIF’ format. Unlike GIF, PNG supports 24-bits colour which means it could retain more combination of colours of a picture. That will lead to retaining the quality of your picture, just like the JPEG picture.
PICT is a file format that was developed by Apple Computer during mid 80s. these files were used to exchange graphics between various Macintosh applications. When Apple introduced the MacOS-X, Apple deided to replace PICT by PDF. In other words its slowly becoming out of bounce! But most of the Mac users’ system might have PICT file type as an option still.
PDF (Portable Document Format) – it is a file type that has captured all the elements of a printed document as an electronic image that you can view, navigate, print, or forward to other users. PDF files are created using Adobe Acrobat. To view and use the files, you need the free Acrobat Reader, which you can easily download. Once you've downloaded the Reader, it will start automatically whenever you want to look at a PDF file. The image quality is moderate and rather popular with document developing software such as PageMaker.
TIFF
Stands for Tag Image File Format, a lossless cross-platform (both Windows and Macintosh) bitmap file format.
Common file types and relevant software to view them
This site provides useful guideline to identify the required software for a file type. Try it and comment on it.
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TIFF is convenient when you toggle between Windows & Mac OS… it help minimise any loss of quality of the image during conversion... Most PC related drawing tools store images as BMP- the bitmap format, example ‘Paintbrush’...