Tagged Image File Format; high quality high file size, lossless
Tiff (.tif, .tiff)
Bitmap Image File; designed for windows, lossless format, propietary, high quality high file size
Bitmap (.bmp)
“lossy” format, already compressed, portable; Joint Photographic Experts Groups, common on the internet, and popular for digicams
JPEG (.jpg, . jpeg)
-Graphics Interchange Format, can be animated, widely used for web development because of small colors
GIF (.gif)
Portable Network Graphics; has 16 million colors unlike 256 colors by GIF, a lossless image format made to improve upon the GIF
PNG (.png)
Encapsulated PostScript File, vector format, can be opened in Illustrator programs
EPS (.eps)