PrimalJay Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 What are the most common ones out there that are universally used and which offer the best image quality as apposed to file size, there are that many image file converters out there and knowing which files to convert to is a real pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leah-Lacie Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 JPG and JPEG are most universal, I think and I believe, but am not 100% sure, a BMP (bitmap) has the best quality but is a larger file? A GIF is one of those moving images which is also a very common type. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooky3 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 With JPG you will generally lose quality due to the "lossy" compression used. GIF's generally only have a small colour palette, normally 256. BMP, also now known as RAW on cameras, no loss and virtually no compression if at all! PNG's, good all round format, full colour availability and good lossless compression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillybear Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Is TIFF still being used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swarfendor437 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 TIFF (.tif) tends to be related to 'scanned images' or 'scanned documents' to save on space. .jpg and .jpeg are pretty common but there was some advice a few years ago that people should use .png as there was a potential copyright issue over saving images as .jpegs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VideoPro Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Is TIFF still being used? Broadcast TV graphics and stills use uncompressed TIFF because it supports transparency for automatic compositing. We don't care about space, we have plenty of it - 100MB for a single image is not uncommon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldo Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 .TGA can also do uncompressed 4 channels including Alpha. Imagine the main reason they use those kind of formats (along with .TIFF) in video processing, is because reading and writing massive image files, is a LOT quicker that the time it takes to compress to .PNG, even though a .PNG file size may be like 1% or less, of the uncompressed equivalent image. We tend to use .PNG and .JPG most in game development. They all have different properties and uses though, totally depends on what your application is PrimalJay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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