JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)- A JPEG is a compressed image file format, they are not limited to a certain amount of colour making it the best format for compressing photographic images. If you come across a large, colourful image on Google Images it will most likely be a JPEG.
TIFF (Tag Image File Format)-TIFF is a standard file format found in most paint, imaging, and desktop publishing programs and allows storage of multiple bitmap images of any pixel depth, makes it ideal for most image storage needs.
PNG (Portable Network Graphics- A PNG is a raster graphics file format and is used to compress the image and is usually found in Photoshop and Illustrator.
BMP (Bitmap Image File)- The BMP format is mostly used for raster graphics to save image files. The format stores colour data for each pixel in the image without any compression needed. This will give the image a crisp, high-quality image.
PSD (Photoshop Document)- A PSD is specially made for Photoshop and it's when you can save it as this file format and you can still view the image you created and also edit the image if you wish to.
AI (Adobe Illustrator)- For this format only Adobe Illustrator can read it and is based on a PDF, when you save it as an AI file you can view it and also sill edit it just like a PSD.
WMF (Windows Metafile)- WMF is a file extension used with Microsoft Windows, they can contain vector and bitmap graphics.
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