File formats explained

What each format is good at, where it falls short, and which one to choose.

Image

• AVIFAV1 Image File Format
• BMPBitmap image file
• CR2Canon Raw version 2
• DNGDigital Negative
• GIFGraphics Interchange Format
• HEICHigh Efficiency Image Container
• ICOWindows icon file
• JP2JPEG 2000
• JPGJPEG image
• NEFNikon Electronic Format
• PNGPortable Network Graphics
• PSDAdobe Photoshop Document
• SVGScalable Vector Graphics
• TIFFTagged Image File Format
• WebPWebP image

PDF

• PDFPortable Document Format

Audio

• FLACFree Lossless Audio Codec
• M4AMPEG-4 Audio
• MP3MPEG-1 Audio Layer III
• WAVWaveform Audio File Format

Document

• TXTPlain text file