{"id":74895,"date":"2016-03-30T13:47:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T18:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=74895"},"modified":"2016-03-30T13:49:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T18:49:06","slug":"jpeg-tiff-gif-png-and-raw-briefly-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/03\/30\/jpeg-tiff-gif-png-and-raw-briefly-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, and RAW briefly explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Rex Dolby<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Van Wert Area Photography Club\u2019s\u00a0next meeting is Thursday, April 14, at 7 p.m., at 114 S. Race St.\u00a0 There will be more about that meeting next week.\u00a0 For this week, we’ll try to simplify some information about the various files used\u00a0mainly in photography.<\/p>\n

JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, which created this standard.\u00a0 JPEG files are images that have been compressed to store a lot of information into a small-size file, but in that process, it\u00a0loses some of the image detail (and thus it’s called \u201clossy\u201d compression).<\/p>\n

Most digital cameras store photos in the JPEG format, which allows you\u00a0to take more photos on one camera card than you can with other formats. JPEG files are usually used for photographs on the internet, because they create a small file that is easily loaded on a web page and also looks good.<\/p>\n

TIFF stands for Tagged Image File Format. TIFF images create file sizes that can be as\u00a0much as eight times\u00a0larger than JPEG,\u00a0because TIFF images are uncompressed and\u00a0therefore contain much more detailed image data.\u00a0 TIFFs are\u00a0extremely flexible in terms of color and provide more details in prints.<\/p>\n

PNG stands for Portable Network Graphics.\u00a0 PNG creates a larger file than\u00a0JPEG.\u00a0 For images with some text, or line art, it\u2019s better because the\u00a0sky and lines\u00a0look\u00a0more natural.<\/p>\n

GIF stands for Graphic Interchange Format. This format compresses images, but is different from JPEG because\u00a0the compression is lossless (although no detail is lost in the compression,\u00a0the file can\u2019t be made as small as a JPEG).<\/p>\n

GIFs also have an extremely limited color range which is suitable for the web but not for printing. This format is seldom used for photography because of the limited number of colors.<\/p>\n

RAW doesn’t stand for anything. It is in all caps so it’s not confused with the word raw.\u00a0 RAW is a file format that captures all the image data recorded by the sensor when you take a photo.\u00a0 Because no information is compressed with RAW, you\u2019re able to produce higher quality images, as well as correct problem images that would be unrecoverable if shot in the JPEG\u00a0format.\u00a0 Depending on the details in the photo, the size of a raw file may be three to four times that of a JPEG.<\/p>\n

The difference when you shoot in JPEG format is that the camera does its own processing to convert the RAW information into a\u00a0JPEG.\u00a0 However, your camera isn\u2019t as smart as your brain, nor is it as powerful as your computer. When you shoot RAW, you\u2019re able to do that processing yourself. You can make the decisions on how the image should look, and produce\u00a0much better\u00a0results. Usually\u00a0RAW is\u00a0converted to TIFF before editing and color correcting.<\/p>\n

We hope you found at least some of this information helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Rex Dolby The Van Wert Area Photography Club\u2019s\u00a0next meeting is Thursday, April 14, at 7 p.m., at 114 S. Race St.\u00a0 There will be more about that meeting next week.\u00a0 For this week, we’ll try to simplify some information about the various files used\u00a0mainly in photography. JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameraclub"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 10:33:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}