What Exactly Are File Extensions?
What Exactly Are File Extensions? Hey, So you are probably new to graphic design or digital art and lately you've been seeing all these options of file extensions every time you try to save a file or download images or stuff like that and you don't really understand what they are? Or perhaps you are a client and you want to understand better what the files your graphic designer sent to you are used for? A long time ago when I was just being introduced to the world of computers by my big brother, one of the first things he explained to me was file extensions and that single lesson helped me a lot going forward. While some file extensions are software specific and can only be opened by that software, others can run across different devices and software. File extensions are usually saved as three letters added to the end of a filename after a dot (.) . For example: filename.jpg, filename.png. Each of them have their various uses an