Image File Formats Notes. Image file formats are standardized means of organizing and storing digital images an image file format may store data in an uncompressed format a compressed format which may be lossless or lossy or a vector format. For very simple icons and web graphics gif is the best image file format.
The compression techniques in the gif format allow image files to shrink tremendously. The bin files are containers coded information. Raw image files contain data from a digital camera usually.
There are a lot of different raw formats each camera company often has its own proprietary format.
There are many different image types and image file extensions that can be used when creating and saving images on the computer. In fact it was at one point one of the few image formats. Bmp files are also called raster or paint images. The compression techniques in the gif format allow image files to shrink tremendously.