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- 1GIFThe Graphics Interchange Format (better known by its acronym GIF is a bitmap image format. It is in wide spread as it is suitable for the internet due to its ability to take videos and cut them into shorter versions and then compress them for size reduction
- 2JPGJPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group. This is the right format for those photo images which must be very small files, for example, for web sites or for email. Thus is in wide use as internet pictures
- 3PNGPortable Network Graphics is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG was created as an improved, non-patented replacement for the GIF, and is the most used lossless image compression format on the Internet.
- 4HTMLHyperText Markup Language commonly referred to as HTML is the standard markup language used to create web pages. Nearly all websites use this language or the newer HTML5
- 5SVGScalable Vector Graphics is an XML-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics with support for interactivity and animation. This is a good file type as it is a vector therefore keeps detail if enlarged/compressed
- 6PDFPortable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. Each PDF file contains a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and other information needed to display it.
- 7WAVWaveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or more commonly known as WAV due to its file name extension) (rarely, Audio for Windows) is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs.
- 8MIDIMIDI is a technical standard that describes a protocol, digital interface and connectors and allows a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers and other related devices to connect and communicate with one another. Therefore this protocol is very useful in music creation
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