Just as you'd never send an IT person to do a human resource manager's job, digital image file formats all have their rightful place in the world, complete with their own strengths and weaknesses.

There’s a gulf of difference between bitmap and vector graphics. Bitmap art is made of pixels and has a scale attached: each pixel represents black or white, or some gray or color tone. The resolution ...

SVG is short for Scalable Vector Graphics, a resolution-independent file format for images. This file format is frequently used for line art like logos and diagrams ...

There are dozens of file formats for word processing documents, database files, graphics, spreadsheets and so on. If a file was created in one application and you want to use it in another, you can ...