Lets talk Geek language ! Here you will find out more about the file formats we can supply you with.

The most common and widely used for photographic images is JPEG. The name JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group (incase you were wondering). This is the format that most common and mid range digital camera's use today. JPEG provides for lossy compression of images, although there are variations.  The JPEG file format is Lossy meaning with some limited loss to to the original image quality. JPEG is at its best on photographs and paintings of realistic scenes with smooth variations of tone and color. In this case it usually performs much better than purely lossless methods while still giving a good looking image.

The TIFF file format which stands for Tagged Image File Format. How does TIFF differ to JPEG? A TIFF file can support a multiple of images and support tags. Where as a JPEG can not. Now here is where the TIFF format has a major advantage over a standard JPEG. A TIFF image can be edited and resaved to any media with OUT suffering any compression loss. While this format is the preferred file format of imaging professionals this might not be the format for your project. TIFF files can grow large in size quickly, especially when scanning them at a high resolution. In most cases to the amateur photographer the human eye will have a challenging time seeing the difference between a TIFF and Jpeg.

Another common file format is PNG file extension, the pronunciation 'Ping'. PNG stands for Potable Network Graphic, and originated from the bitmap file format, which also employees a lossless data compression. PNG was designed for transferring images on the internet, not professional graphics, and so does not support other color spaces (such as CMYK). PNG only supports a color palette of 24 bit RGB. So unless your interested in having your photo hosted on the internet only this might not be the best choice for your project. Chat with us we will help you to make the right choice. After being in the imaging business for 9 years we have come across it all.

We support so many file formats it's just SILLY!  Gif, Jpeg 2000 JP2 file, JPEG, PCX, PNG, PSD, TEPS, PDD IFF, BMP and most standard RAW. Tell us what you need, I'm sure we can provide it.