Imagine working with special cameras that capture light your eyes can’t even see—ultraviolet rays that cause sunburn or infrared heat signatures that reveal hidden writing. Or perhaps using ...

If you have ever worked with computer graphic images, whether they be from digital cameras, found on the web, or you create them yourself, then you know there are a lot of image file formats that are ...

The previous Creaticity column covered basic image file formats such as JPEG, PNG, PDF, etc. However, once you pick up a camera, terms such as raw and file formats such as DNG, XMP, along with a ...

EPS is a file format used for vector-based graphics such as icons, logos and type. Vector graphics are made up of paths rather than pixels, so they are resolution independent; i.e., they can be scaled ...

We all download images or create memes to share on social media, whether casually or for professional purposes. However, because converting everything into PDF resolves quality issues, we don’t seem ...

I got to wondering today, if there was any image format, maybe binary black/white, or greyscale, or even color, that is just raw pixels, with no metadata. Even BMP, while it has pretty minimal ...

Before designing your artwork you would decide what it will be used for. Maybe it will be used for one thing or it will be used for multiple things. Knowing what the artwork will be used for helps you ...

It offers improved compression, including lossless compression, and supports multiple resolutions in a single file, but it has only limited support in current Web browsers. GIF The Graphic Interchange ...

What are the characteristics of a TIFF File? The TIF format is an old graphic format, which makes it possible to store very large (more than 4 GB compressed) bitmap images (raster) losing quality and ...