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February 11, 2007

Sandy’s Great Graphic Tips: Selecting File Types

Sandy wrote this at 5:04 pm

Which graphic file type is best? It depends . . .

A lot of people wonder what the difference is between file types. Here’s a quick description of three common types. To learn more, follow the links for examples and detailed explanations.

.jpg or .jpeg = Joint Photographers Experts Group

.gif = Graphics Interchange Format

.png = Portable Network Graphics

How do you know if you have the right file format?

If it’s too grainy, too fuzzy, or the file size is too large, you might want to review the descriptions above or check out Pat Kalbaugh’s GIF vs JPG page at The Sirius Web. Experiment a little - save it as a different file type and see what happens.

See you next time!

–Sandy, Purple Wren

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4 Comments to “Sandy’s Great Graphic Tips: Selecting File Types”

  1. February 12th, 2007 at 5:50 am
    Thilak said

    I’ll stick with jpeg and PNG. Other formats don’t like me!

  2. February 13th, 2007 at 4:03 am
    TechZ said

    I use them all, PNG looks the best, but you have to be careful that in IE6, it won’t render as a transparency, for that be sure to use GIF’s.

    :)

  3. February 13th, 2007 at 9:54 am
    Sandra Renshaw said

    Hi TechZ,

    Thanks for the comment. That’s great to know. I tend to use Firefox and sometimes forget to check out IE.

    Sandy

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