File types!

So when designing and researching for a project certain programs will use a different file type storage than any other program. Here are a few different file types that we use everyday in computing:

PSD: when saving a photoshop document it will normally have the title of the file and a .psd after. This means that it is the defult file extension of the file format of Adobe System's Photoshop program. You wouldn't be able to open this file without Photoshop being installed.

Here is an image that was manipulated on Photoshop. It would be saved as a psd file.

JPEG:  a file format which is used to compress digital images. The amount of compression can be changed; so if an image is high quality, it will take up a large amount of storage. If it is low quality, it will take up a small amount of storage. This is the most common image file format that you will see all over the internet and most other programs.

An example of a JPEG file with different compressions throughout this photo image.

TIFF: (Tagged Image File Format) is a container format for storing images, including photographs and line art and under the control of Adobe.The TIFF format is widely supported by image-manipulation applications, by publishing and page layout applications, by scanning, faxing, word processing, optical character recognition and other applications.It is a popular format for colour and B+W images.


PNG: (Portable Network Graphics) is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression (e.g. an image without a background layer). PNG was created as an improved replacement for GIF. PNG was designed for transferring images on the Internet, not for professional-quality print graphics, and therefore does not support non-RGB color spaces such as CMYK.