Picture Formats

by Erin Banister

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Ever wondered what format to use with your image files? Here’s a quick overview from CNET.comto help you decide!

• Tagged Image File Format (.tiff): Whether printing on a commercial press or a desktop printer, you’ll see the best results from images saved as TIFF files. TIFFs are uncompressed, so their data information and color information stay intact, making the file size large and producing the best quality for high-level magazines, newspapers, and publishing projects.
• Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpeg, .jpg): JPEG represents most photos and intricate images on the Web. Highly compressed, the file size is much smaller than a TIFF of comparable dimensions,
• Graphical Interchange Format (.gif): The other popular compressed format for Web images, GIF presents the best option for line art such as clip art and stick figures, should you be inclined to publish one on the Web. Because of their small size, both JPEG and GIF files load much faster than TIFFs.
• Portable Document Format (.pdf): Think of it as a photograph of an image or layout. Though mostly used for documents because it preserves layout characteristics and cannot be edited or altered, Photoshop (a fellow Adobe product) supports and saves in PDF. PDF files can be opened with the free Acrobat Reader application from Adobe .

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