File Extensions

Today I am posting for one of my assessments for college, I'm starting on "artistic styles used in computer games". alright, first up is:

File Extensions:

File extensions are used at the end of files to indicate what the file is and how the file is used, e.g. a .jpg is an image which, if it had layers, has been compressed to one layer, it also uses a very small piece of memory. Other common file extensions are: .bmp, .png, .gif, .tiff, .psd

bmp.: bmp. is a file extension used for a bitmap images which are 2D images. bmp. is used alot my Microsoft windows and OS/2 operating systems

png.: png. is a file extension used for bitmap images, png. was created to replace gif. as a better file extension, png. supports palette-based images, grey scale images and full colour non-palette images.

gif.: gif. is another file extension used for bitmap images, this format of file extension supports up to 8 bits per pixel allowing a single image to use up to 256 distinct colours.

tiff.: tiff. is a file extension used for storing images, it is used most commonly by: publishers, artists, photographers etc. Adobe holds the copyrights for tiff.

psd.: psd. is a file extension solely used for Photoshop, it allows the user to save the document, yet still keep all the layers they have used, yet this used a lot of memory for one file.