HW Image Type

The Differences Between psd, gif, jpg, pdf, bmp, and png are:

-PSD is the default format that Photoshop uses for saving information. It allows users to work with the images layers after it has been saved. This allows you to continue your work on photoshop.

-GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format. It is a lossless format for image files that supports animated and static images. GIF supports color and various resolutions. It is a compressed image file format.

-JPG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, it is not limited to a certain amount of color, like Gif images are. JPG format is best for compressing photographic images. It is commonly used for storing digital photos.

-PDF stands for Portable Document Format. It captures document text, fonts, images and formatting of documents from a variety of applications. You need Adobe Reader to view a PDF file. It preserve fonts and formatting electronically across multiple platforms and appear the same on screen as they do when printed.

-BMP format stores color data for each pixel in the image without using compression. That makes it high-quality and it produces large file sizes. Its often used for printable images. JPEG and GIF formats can decrease their file size and BMP can't because it isn't a compressed image file.

-PNG is a compressed raster graphic format. Its a popular choice for application graphics and is commonly used on the web. PNG images can't be animated and and it does not have any blurring that may appear in JPG images. It supports an alpha channel unlike the GIF and JPG formats. GIF images have a maximum of 256 colors while a PNG image may include over 16 million colors.