Understanding file formats

- [Tutor] There are a variety of file formats,…that you need to familiarize yourself,…when working with images in Photoshop,…to simplify, I'm going to divide them…into three areas of the workflow,…your original source or your capture files,…your working or your master files,…which will most likely be your multilayered,…retouched and composited images and designs…that you create in Photoshop…and your output files for specific devices.…So let's talk about image capture first,…when you start with a photograph,…the most common file formats are JPEG and RAW,…JPEG is currently the most widely used file format…in photography, because it's the default file format,…that mobile devices, such as our phones capture…and it's almost always an option on other digital cameras,…its popularity is based primarily on the fact…that JPEG files are small, so you can store a large number…of photos on a single device or a single card…and they can be written to those devices quickly,…however in order to decrease a photograph's file size,…