File Types and Sizes

Knowing what type and size of file to use for what purpose and why

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Initially geared towards designers and artists, this course has been benefitting anyone navigating the challenges the digital age brings.

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Poor Quality Prints

Do you have grainy, marked, poor quality prints?
Slow screens with images

Do your images take ages to load up to view?
Phone storage is full!

At that vital time, your phone says it's full - grrr!

Sending Attachments

Sending documents to other people as easily as possible.
Just Guessing?

Do you not know what type of file is going to be suitable?
Can't Edit it - Grrr!

Why some documents can be edited and some cannot.

Does file size matter?

Understanding file sizes and why this is important.
File Compression?

What are the consequences of compressing a file.
Lossy and lossless

Why you need to know about lossy and lossless files.

CMYK or RGB

Do you know what they are and why they are used for?
Raster or Vector?

What are they? Why do you need to know?
What is DPI & PPI?

What do they stand for and why are they important?

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Course curriculum

1. 1. About the course
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2. 2. About Me and why I've created this course
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3. 3. How to use this course
4. 4. Before we begin...
1. 5. RGB Colour Model
2. 6. CMYK Colour Model
3. 7. RGB versus CMYK
4. 8. Converting RGB to CMYK
5. 9. Quiz about Colour Models
1. 10. What is a file size
2. 11. Computer files
3. 12. File Size Examples
4. 13. Quiz about file sizes
1. 14. Dots and Pixels Per Inch
2. 15. Dots Per Inch DPI
3. 16. Pixels Per Inch PPI
4. 17. Files for viewing on screen
5. 18. Files for Printing
6. 19. Quiz about Dots and Pixels Per Inch
1. 20. What are Raster and Vector?
2. 21. Photographs
3. 22. Logos
4. 23. Quiz about Raster and Vector
1. 24. Why file reduction is useful
2. 25. The importance of using the right file type
3. 26. Lossy files
4. 27. Lossless files
5. 28. Quiz about Lossy and Lossless files
1. 29. The different types of files
2. 30. File type AIFF
3. 31. File type BMP
4. 32. File type CSS
5. 33. File Type CSV
6. 34. File type EPS
7. 35. File types Excel
8. 36. File type GIF
9. 37. File type HTML
10. 38. File type Illustrator
11. 39. File type InDesign
12. 40. File type Javascript
13. 41. File type JPG
14. 42. Memory Dump
15. 43. File type MOV
16. 44. File type MP3
17. 45. File type MP4
18. 46. File type Numbers
19. 47. Open Office Excel
20. 48. Open Office Word
21. 49. File type Pages
22. 49. File type PDF
23. 50. File type Photoshop
24. 52. File type PHP
25. 53. File type PNG
26. 54. File type RAW
27. 55. File type SVG
28. 56. File type SRT
29. 57. File type TIFF
30. 58. File type Wave
31. 59. File type WBMP
32. 60. File type Word
33. 61. File type Zip
34. 62. Quiz about file types
1. 63. Adobe.com
1. 64. Coursework
1. 65. Thank you
2. 66. Before you go...

About this course

£5.00
66 lessons
0.5 hours of video content

Meet your Instructor

Designer and Course Creator Anna Brewin

Hi, I’m Anna. I did my degree in Textile Design at the University of Huddersfield in Yorkshire, UK, and have expanded my work into Graphics and Surface Pattern. Having moved from designing on paper to the digital space, there are lots of things I've discovered and found out along the way that has explained why things have and haven't worked. I have consolidated all this learning into this short course, to enable you to know how to navigate the digital space and not make irreversible mistakes.