File Format Descriptions.

 File Formats - 

Tiff - Tiff stands for Tag Image File Format. It was developed in 1986 and its main purpose is to preserve quality and is a format you would use if your continuing to edit an image. Because it’s not compressed it’s usually a very large file. Most applications can understand this format as it is one of the most common graphic design image formats. It comes in several options, Grey Scale, Colour Palette and RGB Full Colour. It is not recommended to be used for small files or web images. 

JPEG - JPEG stand for Joint Photographic Experts Group and is a standard file format commonly used on websites and the internet for quick viewing purposes. It doesn’t contain a lot of data about the image and isn’t the best quality therefore isn’t a big file and doesn’t take up a lot of storage like Tiff and Raw files. Almost all devices are compatible with this file format. 

Photoshop Document - A Photoshop Document is in its name, it’s Photoshop native file. It’s the one file format that supports all of photoshop features like the layering and editing. Only photoshop can open this file unlike jpeg which anything can open. 

Raw File - A Raw File is the most common file for uncompressed images. Because it comes directly from the camera it doesn’t loose any quality but also means it’s a very large file. This file contains all details and all the information from the camera as an image was taken but doesn’t change the image at all. It’s purpose is to store the information for future editing . Technically a Raw file isn’t an image it’s just a file of information.