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File Formats: A Variety of Features A native file can often contain special formatting that is specific to the program that created it. For example, a Photoshop file can be saved with information on different layers that can be manipulated individually. This is useful for a designer when creating montage image files because they allow one to keep elements separate for flexibility while seeing how they looked merged together. It isn't possible to save these layers in any other format but a native Photoshop format. A non-native file can be opened by a variety of programs. A TIFF file, for example, can be opened by Photoshop, Fireworks, Debabelizer, Illustrator and a host of other applications. A designer can also import a TIFF file into page-layout programs like PageMaker and QuarkXPress. Examples of non-native image file formats include TIFF, EPS, JPEG and GIF image files. Each non-native image file format has its own advantages and disadvantages.
Some are appropriate to be used for professional reproduction while others
are not. Some work on Web pages while others will not. Just as there are
programs that are appropriate for some jobs and not for others, the same
is true of image file formats.
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a computer file is saved on your computer, it will be saved, whether you
realize it or not, as a certain type of file. Some programs don't give
any file format options. This type of file is called
a "native" file and can only be opened by the program that created
it (sometimes it can with translation software). Other programs will offer
several different file format choices. A file that can be opened by a
variety of programs is called a "non-native" file. Both native
and non-native files have their own advantages and disadvantages.
