File formats

Learn the differences between commonly used Photoshop image file formats!

Main file format attributes:

PSD

PSB

TIFF

JPEG

PNG

GIF

PDF

EPS

Layers
Alpha channels
Spot channels
Clipping paths
Transparency
Color profile
Dither
Embedded XMP metadata
Control Compression

BMP

WBMP

Mac only

Options specific to file formats:

PSB - Large Document Format

PDF - Portable Document Format

EPS - Encapsulated Post-Script

- max number of pixels is 300.000 by 300.000

- can be secured to view but not print and/or copying content

- when opened in Photoshop the vector data is rasterized

- Photoshop CS and later can open it

- text layers are maintained provided Preserve Editing

- encoding options are ASCII, Binary and JPEG

Capabilities is selected

- DCS 2.0 is a version of EPS

JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group

PNG - Portable Network Graphics

TIFF - Tagged Image File Format

- Progressive - enables low quality quick preview in the

- PNG-8 supports dither, PNG-24 does not

- three compression methods (LZW, Zip and JPEG)

browser and image is downloaded in multiple passes

- Interlace - file size is increased and image is downloaded in

- maximum image size is 4 GB

- Save for Web > Blur can reduce the file size

multiple passes

- can save high dynamic range images (HDR) as 32-bits per

- lossy compression (quality setting on a scale of 13, 0 to

channel files

12, with 12 being the highest quality and biggest file size)
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