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Format and storage
• TIFF(.tif, .tiff): Tagged Image File Format, no compression, high
quality, large size. Good for printing.
• JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg): Joint Photographic Experts Group, Lossy
compression, reduced size. Good for digital cameras, web use.
• GIF: Graphics Interchange Format, used for web graphics, can be
animated, limited to 256 colors, allow for transparency, small size.
• PNG: Portable Network Graphics , lossless, support 16 million colors.
• EPS (.eps) Encapsulated PostScript, vector file type, can be opened
in applications such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW.
• RAW Image Files (.raw, .cr2, .nef, .orf, .sr2, dicom, ...): created by a
camera or scanner, hold a lot of information (intensities +
metadata), need to be processed in an editor.
NHSM - 4th year: Digital Image Processing - Introduction (Week 1) - M. Hachama (hachamam@gmail.com) 14/23