#06 - Multimedia File Types and Vectors

The 6th day in Principles of Design and Color Theory.

Multimedia File Types

Images

There are a lot of  file types for images: JPEG, PNG, GIF, PSD, TIFF, BMP, etc. These are commonly used.

• JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group. JPEG is commonly used for photography and method of lossy compression. It uses 16.8 million colors. It loses quality but in a smaller file size.
• PNG: Portable Network Graphics. PNG is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless compression. It also uses 16.8 million colors. It stays in its quality but having a large file size.
• GIF: Graphics Interchange Format. GIF is commonly used for animation and it is also known as the moving picture. But it uses 256 colors.
• PSD: Photoshop Save File/Photoshop Document. PSD is commonly used for Adobe Photoshop in editing images/animations by layer to layer. This can be the best file type in editing pictures but only supported in Adobe Photoshop.

Videos

There are also a lot of file types for videos: MP4, AVI, 3GP, MOV, MPEG, WMV, FLV, etc. These are also commonly used for videos.

• MP4: Moving Picture Experts Group 4. MP4 is one of the most common video file types. This is the video counterpart of JPEG. The video has the same quality as JPEG and is lossy. MP4 are also in smaller file size.
• AVI: Audio Video Interleave: AVI is also one of the most common video file types. AVIs are commonly used for burning into DVD recordable disks. It has a right quality, maybe loseless, but in a very high file size that can exceed gigabytes (GB).
• 3GP: 3GPs are commonly from mobile phones. However it has a small file size and low quality but the size and quality is depending on the phone's camera.

Music

MP3, AAC, and OGG are sampled for music file types. MP3 are best known for music types and very most common. Music file types are also embedded in video file types so that makes the video mixed up with music. Without a music, the video doesn't play any sounds just visuals.

Vectors

I've also learned about vectors. Not the vectoring of faces of figures. It is about the shapes in Photoshop. Vectoring is mostly in Adobe Illustrator than Photoshop. In Photoshop, they are just the shapes and texts. Here one of my work for vectoring: