Confused by image formats?

Can’t tell your PNG from your BMP? Baffled by RAW? When it comes to saving images it’s essential to understand the options and tradeoffs, so take a look at “Make Sense of Imaging Options” (NDTmag, July 28th, 2010.) In this concise article Tony Melton of Industrial Imaging Solutions runs through the basics of image formats – lossless and lossy compression, raster versus vector, and the pros and cons of the various formats.