Best Format to Share your Favorite Photos
Our love for photos
and images goes back a couple of centuries. The need to have a life-like
portrait of humans, nature, etc. forced us to move beyond painting through
brush to painting with light i.e. photography
What began as a
simple process of taking and making photographs has today turned into a diverse
field of study in itself with cameras being divided into either Analog or Digital;
from film cameras to DSLR cameras.
With the help of the
internet, the spreading of photos has become very easy. One can check some of
the best indian social networking sites
and find a diverse range of photographs in different formats. However, a couple
issues arise for anybody before uploading it on the web.
a. What
kind of file format should be used to do web related work
b. What
kind of format setting should be done in the DSLR
c. How
much of internet data would these formats require to upload
To understand these
questions, have a look at the three basic photo capture formats and then decide
for yourself:
JPEG
– RAW – TIFF
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JPEG
– Joint Photographic Experts Group
Pros –
o
Small file size with decent quality
o
Most suitable for web related work
o
Fast to save due to file size
Cons –
o
Lossy compression which means smaller file size but
reduced quality
o
Not suited for many re-edits as it leads to loss of
quality
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TIFF
– Tagged Image File Format
Pros –
o
Good for publishing photos in textbooks or magazines
o
No compression loss which means great quality
Cons –
o
Lossless compression leads to huge files which take
up much of the memory space
o
Slower to read/write than JPEG. Means more time to
save and more time and data to upload
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RAW –
Pros –
o
Possibly the best image quality available as they
are not processed, hence the name RAW
o
No loss of data due to lossless compression
Cons –
o
Requires processing in camera and additional
software to edit
o
Very large file sizes which are slow to read/write
Creating photographs
is both fun and challenging. The images define us. They define our memories,
expressions, and situations. The images for wallpaper that you search online to set as a desktop wallpaper also
define your personality and are able to tell a story by themselves.
So, like them,
cherish them, share them.
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