File Format for dummies

ever been in a situation where you finished a project and  ending up confused and dumb because you do not know what file format you should use to save your project.

Say good bye to those situation!

heres the solution.

just try to remember them. hehehe

first of all there are 2 types of file formats

1. lossy - It eliminate "unnecessary" bits of information, tailoring the file so that it is smaller. This type of compression is used a lot for reducing the file size of bitmap pictures
2. lossless - Saves the original data, it doesn't change any elements inside the data 

Image

1. JPEG - jpeg is lossy file. a jpeg (joint photographic expert group) it is capable of showing 16.8 million colors. it doesn't have a transparent property.
2. GIF -The format supports up to 8 bits per pixel for each image, allowing a single image to reference its own palette of up to 256 different colors chosen from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of up to 256 colors for each frame. These palette limitations make the GIF format unsuitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with continuous color,
3.  PNG -a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG was created as an improved, non-patented replacement for Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), and is the most used lossless image compression format on the Internet.
4.  PSD - Photoshop format it has layers.
5.  TIFF -a file format for storing images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry,^[1] and both amateur and professional photographers in general
6. BMP -also known as bitmap image file or device independent bitmap (DIB) file format or simply a bitmap, is a raster graphics image file format used to store bitmapdigital images, independently of the display device (such as a graphics adapter), especially on Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems.
7. AI - this format is used by Adobe Illustrator this is a vector graphics.

MOVIE

1. MP4 - a digital multimedia format most commonly used to store video and audio, but can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images.
2. AVI -AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback. Like the DVD video format, AVI files support multiple streaming audio and video, although these features are seldom used.
3. 3GP -a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for 3G UMTS multimedia services. It is used on 3G mobile phones but can also be played on some 2G and 4G phones.