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Common Internet File Formats - The document is not being updated any longer, but it is a good resource to find file formats on the internet.
FARP - Saving pictures, file formats
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File Types and Optimization - This lesson is designed to help you understand file types and file optimization. In this lesson, you will learn about GIF, JPG and PNG file formats. This lesson uses Adobe's "Save for Web" feature, located in Illustrator and Photoshop. Adobe ImageReady offers the same features, but is set up a little differently. It is recommended that you attend the class lectures to get the full understanding of this lesson.
GIF, JPEG or PNG? - Here are some file formats you may have seen before. They have one thing in common: they don't belong on the Web. Before we go into these "leftover" formats, let's summarize why the three formats we've talked about so far are good to use on the Web.
Graphic File Formats - What do the graphical file formats stand for?
Graphics File Format Page - Information on all file formats
Graphics Formats - Get Web-Suitable Quality Without Overloading Your Site
The Graphics File Format Page These pages contain specifications for various graphics file formats; along with a number of relevant graphics utilities, information, and URLs.
IMG Format Comparison - comparisons between gif and jpeg
Image File Formats - Choosing the right file format to save your images in is of vital importance. There are three image formats in constant use on the net — GIF, JPG and PNG. Each is suited to a specific type of image, and matching your image to the correct format should result in a small, fast-loading graphic. Saving and exporting into these formats will require a decent image editor.
LZW - What is LZW and what are the issues surrounding it?
Photoshop 5.5 - Optimizing Web Graphics
Photoshop and PNGs - This tutorial is written to assist the Png impaired. It is by no means an all-inclusive guide to creating alpha transparent Pngs. I wish to simply share the knowledge I have gained about the format.
Preparing Graphics for the Web - An article on how to use gifs and jpegs properly for the web.
Smooth, Tight Images For The Web in Photoshop - There are any number of methods you can use to optimize and deploy nice smooth images as gif files to the Web. Usually it's much better however to "pixelsmith" the image by hand for the best results. After we took a look at the of this reader's problem, we knew this was a case for some rather serious pixelsmithing...
Which format is better for WWW image purposes, JPEG or GIF? - which format is better for your specific purpose?
Which Format to Choose? -Here are suggestions on which format to save your image in for greater benefit in designing your project.(submitted by printshop.com)
XBM - What is XBM file format
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