PSD
The professional image editing software Photoshop stores files in the format PSD, Photoshop Document. These files allow the saving of all work steps and levels and thus provide a lossless access to the entire work on the document. As a matter of principle, it should be stored as PSD while working, and in the last […]
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The Nikon Electronic Format (NEF) is a raw format from Nikon digital cameras used to store the Japanese manufacturer's digital negative cameras. nef files work with a significantly higher color depth than comparable JPEGs (12 or 14 bits, instead of 8 bits) and offer greater flexibility than comparable RAW formats such as TIFF. As a […]
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The file extension ODG is associated with the Open Document Format for Office applications and refers to a graphics file – ODG stands for Open Document Graphics . The file extension is typically .odg or .fodg and the format was published in 2005 with the last format change in 2011. ODG is thus one of […]
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RAW is a file format that is also considered a digital negative. At first, RAW only specifies a certain raw data format in which images or videos are either not compressed at all, loss-free or lossy, in order to allow as flexible a postprocessing as possible. Different camera manufacturers rely on RAW format on different […]
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The file format OXPS is a pdf-like format for documents based on a layout structure in archive form. The Open XML Paper Specification is a format in which a fixed layout including images is saved and can therefore be reproduced as desired by the author. OXPS in its current form exists since the year 2009 […]
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The format Post Script (PS), which was developed in the early 1980s, is one of the standard formats of the American company Adobe. Adobe is the company behind the Acrobat Reader and programs like Photoshop and with the PS format, the foundations for the now more popular format pdf were laid early. PS documents are […]
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SXW files have been created with StarOffice Writer, the predecessor of OpenOffice Writer. These are thus text files, similar to those of Microsoft Word. However, .sxw files can not be opened with Microsoft Word – and unfortunately no longer with current OpenOffice versions – so they should be converted into .doc beforehand. If the .sxw […]
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MID files are music files and, in contrast to other audio formats like .mp3 or .wav, do not contain direct music but instructions on how to "create" the music. In principle, these files contain "notes for the computer". While a .mp3 file always sounds the same, for a MIDI file it is a matter of […]
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The ai file extension is used by Adobe Illustrator, a vector graphics editor. As a proprietary file format, the ai (Adobe Illustrator Artwork) format is maintained by Adobe Systems. However, it is based on the non-proprietary eps and pdf formats (ai files may be saved with the option of either pdf or postscript compatibility). As […]
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The cdr file extension is used for more than one file type. In most cases though, a cdr file will contain a CorelDraw Image saved in the CDR graphics format, a proprietary format for storing vector graphics. Besides CorelDraw and other programs from the Corel suite, cdr image files can be opened e.g. with Adobe […]
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