- PSD (Photoshop Document) needed for extensive handing of original photos ex. retouching
- JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) photos that are for personal use, small prints, and social media
- BMP (Bitmap Image File) large files, each pixel has saved color data without compression
- TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) uncompressed files, allows to have extensive post-processing
- GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) used to post to the internet, Image quality is not sacrificed due to lossless compression, ability to maintain the transparency
- RAW highest quality files is what you want and raw offers just that, professional photographers prefer this.
- PNG (Portable Network Graphics) compressed in lossless format, retain all details, small size file so that they can load faster on the internet
- DNG (Digital Negative Format) used as a main raw file, also as an alternative for native raw format