Image Formats

This assignment was enlightening to me. I had never payed attention to how files saved before. The most typical graphic file format I found was JPEG. Everything I saved, saved to this format automatically. Some other formats include Bitmap, JIF, TIFF, and PNG. To inspect the file properties, I opened the folder I had created on my desk top and change the view to list and then selected details. This showed me everything I needed to know to complete my spreadsheet. The properties that I viewed were file name, file type/format, file size, and date modified. I noticed the file I had saved as a Bitmap had two differnt icons. When I was viewing this information, I found that the JPEG files were smaller and therefore must have been compressed. When I opened the GSD Pups file and saved it using paint as a Bitmap, its size increased by 7x. I didn't really see a difference between the qualities of the images. I think the JPEG images seemed as clear as Bitmaps. I also found that when you saved an image as a 256-color Bitmap it lost quality. I think I will continue to use the format the computer saves to (JPEG) because for file size, quality was definately the best for the least amount of space. My mininum files size was 3 KB and my maximum was 5 KB if you did not include the Bitmap. The average of these was 4KB. If you include the Bitmap, the smallest file remained 3 KB, but the largest grew to 35 KB. The average when computed this way was 9.16.