Your choices stick across every tutorial on this device.
Let’s go back to basics. The image file formats that are most commonly used are listed below.
File Format
File Extension
Use
Joint Photographic Experts Group
.jpg/.jpeg
Perfect for real-life photographs, paintings, and scenes with smooth variations of colors and effects.
Portable Network Graphics
.png
Widely used lossless image compression format. Perfect for preserving original images with complete visual details.
Graphics Interchange Format
.gif
Suitable for sharp-edged line art with a limited number of colors, small animations, and low-resolution movie clips.
Tagged Image File Format
.tiff
Standard in printing, desktop publishing, faxing, 3D applications, and medical imaging.
Portable Document Format
.pdf
Adequate for web downloads, image sharing, and printing in some cases.
Adobe Illustrator Artwork
.ai
Represents single-page vector-based drawings in either EPS or PDF formats. The extension is designed for Adobe Illustrator.
Photoshop Document
.psd
Provides support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. It keeps layers intact with a file size limit of 2GB.
Photoshop Large Document or Photoshop Big
.psb
A file format almost identical to .PSD, but unlike .PSD, it supports documents larger than 2GB and can range up to 4.2 billion GB.
Pro Training
Selections and Masking Mastery
Complete course includes 2.5 hours of step-by-step lessons, 6 structured modules, downloadable practice files, and custom Photoshop brushes. Everything you need to master selections and masks in one place.
Jesús Ramirez is a graphic designer and the founder of the Photoshop Training Channel, which he started in 2012 and has grown past two million YouTube subscribers. He has taught at Adobe MAX, Adobe Summit, and Photoshop World, teaches courses for CreativeLive and Pluralsight, and was one of five artists chosen for Adobe Stock's Make a Masterpiece campaign. His Photoshop templates shipped inside Photoshop CC 2018.
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