Describe five of the file formats available in Photoshop, including at least two of the formats that are suitable for Web images. If a file format uses compression, specify whether it uses lossy or lossless compression.

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- Bitmap (BMP): A bitmap image file format for Windows; does not support CMYK color
- Encapsulated PostScript (EPS): A file format that supports both vector and bitmap graphics; can be used for high-quality printouts on a PostScript printer; and can also be read by most graphics, illustration, and layout programs
- Graphics Interchange Format (GIF): A lossless file format for bitmap images; suitable for Web images
- Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG or JPG): A lossy file format for bitmap images; suitable for Web images; and supports CMYK, RGB, and Grayscale
- Photoshop format (PSD): A file format that supports all Photoshop features and is easily imported by other Creative Suite applications; can include both vector and bitmap graphics
- Photoshop Raw (RAW): A file format that allows you to transfer images between different applications and operating systems; includes metadata, such as camera type and exposure, but cannot contain layers
- Portable Document Format (PDF): A file format that can display images in different applications and operating systems
- Portable Network Graphics (PNG): A lossless file format for bitmap images; suitable for Web images
- Tagged Image Format (TIFF, TIF): A bitmap image file format; allows you to transfer images between different applications and operating systems; supports layers in Photoshop, but not in other applications
- Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM): Medical scan file format; each frame or slice of a scan is converted to a layer in Photoshop, which can then be edited or adjusted using Photoshop tools
- Digital Negative (DNG): File format that contains raw image data, including metadata
- Large Document Format (PSB): File format that supports large documents—up to 300,000 pixels
- Desktop Color Separations (DCS): File format that saves the color separations in a file; related to the EPS format, it saves vector and bitmap graphics and is used for high-quality printouts
- OpenEXR: High-quality file format used in movie production
- Cineon: File format developed by Kodak that lets you import a file from film to digital and then output it back to film
- Targa (TGA): An RGB format developed for use with TrueVision technology

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