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Assignment 2 Graphic, Audio and Video

By:

Nyeisha George-Minott

A Paper Presented in Partial Fulfilment of

EDID 6508 Developing Instructional Media

Date of submission: 25 February 2017

Email: nyeisha.georgeminott@my.open.uwi.edu

University: University of the West Indies (UWI) Open Campus

Course Coordinator: Dr. Leroy Hill

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Exploring File Formats

There are a variety of file formats used in the industry today. Each has their varying
capacities, capabilities and uses. Some are quite popular others are lesser known.
Some are compressed others uncompressed. Some are Raster and others are
Vector.
Compressed Vs Uncompressed:
The Objective of Image compression is to reduce irrelevance and redundancy of
image data in order to be able to store or transmit data in an efficient form.
Raster Vs Vector:
Raster graphics is a dot matrix data structure and are generally a rectangular grid of
pixels or points of color.
Vector graphics use polygons to represent images in computer graphics
Lossy vs Lossless:
Lossy compression or irreversible compression is a class of data encoding methods
that uses inexact approximations and partial data discarding to represent the
content thus the loss of quality and the appearance of a courser image.
Lossless compressions or reversible compression is a class of data compression
algorithms that allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the
compressed data.
File Format File format Compression Details of Usage of file
Acronym name Compression formats
BMP Windows Uncompressed Large and Widely
EDID6508 Bitmap Lossless accepted by 3
Windows
programs
EPS Encapsulated Uncompressed N/A Used by
PostScript drawing
applications to
describe how
to produce
Images,
drawings and
layouts
GIF Graphics Compressed Lossless Simple
Interchange diagrams,
Format shapes, logos
and cartoon
style images
JPG Joint Compressed Lossy Photographs
Photographic
Experts Group
PCT Macintosh Uncompressed N/A Legacy file
Picture format, best
converted to
other file
formats
PCX PC Paintbrush Uncompressed N/A Mainly used
with
Paintbrush
Software
PDF Portable Compressed Lossy Can represent
Document any kind of
Format graphic
PNG Portable Compressed Lossless Great for
Network animations
Graphics
PSD Photoshop Uncompressed N/A Great for Pixel
Document based image
editing,
preserves
image layers
channels and
paths for
further
manipulation
and
adjustment
TGA Truevision Compressed lossless Icons, line
Targa drawings and
other simple
images.
Legacy file
format, best
converted to
other file
formats
TIF Tagged Image Compressed / Lossy/Lossless Not supported
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*N/A Not applicable

References
http://www.iaaf.uwa.edu.au/imagetype.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_file_formats#GIF
http://www.cod.edu/people/faculty/grantm/grfxext.htm
https://www.lifewire.com/pct-file-2622172
https://www.lifewire.com/eps-file-2622731
https://www.lifewire.com/tga-file-2622390