What are the JPG, TIFF, Raw and all the other different file formats?
JPG – Joint Photographic Experts Group This type of File Format is not the best for image editing, because it uses a “Lossy” compression algorithm that discards at least some information every time you resave it. It is better known for it small and ubiquitous file size footprint. TIFF – Tagged Image File Format TIFF is a very portable format as it is supported by a wide variety of photographic and publishing applications. An image captured as a TIFF is much larger than the same image captured as JPEG, but will only marginal added benefit. RAW A camera raw image file contains the unprocessed data from the image sensor of a digital camera. Also called RAW (although it is not an acronym) or CCD-RAW (even for CMOS sensors), its format is proprietary and differs from one manufacturer to another, and sometimes between cameras made by one manufacturer. The image must be processed and converted to an RGB format such as TIFF or JPEG before it can be manipulated by a bitmap graphics editor, prin
