file extensions used in digital graphics, file compression and optimisation

• file extensions used in digital graphics, file compression and optimisation

There is many file extensions that can and most commonly used in Digital graphics such as JPG and GIF also PNG

JPG – JPG files are most commonly saved as “.JPG” extension, the acutely makers of the “.JPG” extension is a group called “Joint Photographic Experts Group” .JPG files are primarily used for images and mostly always are when you take one off the internet, most images are JPG due to JPG reduces the size of images by quite a bit also it is quite common for cameras to actually store JPEG format and basically can be opened up by all graphics programs in use (Photoshop, Paint, ETC.)

GIF - GIF formally known as (Graphics interchange format), GIF’s File extensions save as “.GIF” and are very commonly used on the internet, very commonly .GIFS can support 8bit images, which basically means it support only “256 Colours” also gifs can contain Transparency, like here is just a simple GIF, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/8-cell-simple.gif as you can see this gif is fairly simple and just moves a bit but it continually goes on until the window is closed down, all

PNG – PNG, formally known as (Portable Network Graphics), which kind of means there is no loss in data like in GIF’S, which is meaning it has higher quality gifs due to it can store/have more data in it but the down side of it is the size of it, which is quite commonly high due to  the quality of them, PNG’s also support transparency