Understanding Graphic Formats

[Martin Boekers]

I came across this and thought it would be good for those relatively new to graphics.....


http://sdgmag.com/tips/understanding...file-formats-0

[Mike Null]

Marty

good link.

[Doug Griffith]

Something to note regarding PNG.

Photoshop's "8 bit" is really 8 bits per channel. RGBA = 4 channels = 32 bits.

It's a little misleading

[Rudy Ress]

Another point, which I recently learned, is that with JPG files you can not make the background transparent (e.g., white box around it or any other background).

[Martin Boekers]

Another point, which I recently learned, is that with JPG files you can not make the background transparent (e.g., white box around it or any other background).

Yes that is true, I tend to use TIFFs for that as most my software recognizes it, sometimes PNGs do wierd things....