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File                                        Description
                  . gif                       The  graphical  file  type  GIF,  which  stands  for  Graphics  Interchange
                                              Format, was first made famous by CompuServe. Almost all graphics
                                              tools,  including  xv,  Lview,  and  Photoshop,  can  open  GIF  files,  which
                                              are encoded, 256-color (8-bit) images that use a lossless compression
                                              approach.
                  .jpg, .jpeg, .jfif          Joint Photographic Experts Group is referred to as JPEG. True colour
                                              (16.7 million colours, or 24-bit) photographs are compressed using the
                                              lossy  JPEG compression  algorithm to create JPG (or, more precisely,
                                              JFIF) files. This implies that when files are JPEG encoded, their quality
                                              may suffer. JPEG files can be opened and saved with numerous graphics
                                              tools across all platforms and are substantially smaller than the majority
                                              of other formats.
                  .ps, .eps, .epsi            Vector  graphics  file  formats  include  Postscript  (PS),  Encapsulated
                                              Postscript (EPS), and Encapsulated Postscript with preview image (EPSI).
                                              They are widely used to store printed documents.
                  .pdf                        Adobe created the Portable Document Format, or PDF. In addition to
                                              the same text and page layout information as Postscript, PDF files can
                                              also incorporate several  WWW features including photos, links, and
                                              heading references. Adobe Acrobat software can be used to view PDF
                                              files.
                  .tif, .tiff                 Uncompressed true colour images are stored in TIFF (Tag Image File
                                              Format) files. You can store TIFFs with compression in the majority of
                                              graphics  applications.  Many  graphics  software,  including  XV  Image
                                              Viewer, CorelDraw and Photoshop can open these files.
                  .tga                        TGA (Targa) files are uncompressed true colour (24-bit) pictures, just as
                                              TIFFs. Many graphics applications, such as XV Image Viewer, LView Pro
                                              and Photoshop can open them.
                  .pict                       A PICT file is a common Macintosh image file type that, depending on
                                              the application used to make it, can either be a raster image or a vector
                                              picture. The majority of Macintosh applications will open them.
                  .bmp                        Windows  Bitmap  files  are  called  BMP  files.  They  are  typically  8-bit
                                              colour images with 256 colours, and many applications, like Windows
                                              Paintbrush, can see them. The Windows desktop can have backgrounds
                                              made from BMP files.
                  .pcx                        Picture  Exchange,  or  PCX,  is  a  raster  image  file  type,  which  implies
                                              that it displays images using colour pixels. A complicated structure of
                                              points, lines, graphs, and calculations is used to create visuals in the
                                              vector picture format, which is the other major type of image format.

                                              A Zsoft paint file is known as a PCX. Windows Paintbrush is capable of
                                              opening PCXs.






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