Apple Macintosh PhotoFlash - Manual (Page 35)

Image files often include a caption and a thumbnail, which is a miniature
reproduction of the image. Thumbnails appear in catalog windows, in the
Open dialog box when you select an image file, and in the Get Info window
for an image.
File formats recognized by PhotoFlash
PhotoFlash can open image files saved in any of the following file formats:
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PICT is the standard Macintosh format for image files. PICT files can also
be opened in the Windows environment if QuickTime is installed in the
Windows system.
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TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) is a commonly used file format for both
Macintosh and MS-DOS system software. You can use a Macintosh
program to open a file saved in the TIFF format from an MS-DOS
program, and vice versa.
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EPS (Encapsulated PostScript ™ ) is a format used primarily to export image
files for use with page layout programs. EPS files may include line art as
well as images. PhotoFlash can open EPS files that contain bitmapped
images like those created by Adobe Photoshop, but it can’t open EPS files
that contain nonbitmapped images, like those created in Illustrator, which
consist of mathematically defined shapes.
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JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a standard method of
compressing image files. You can apply JPEG compression to files saved in
most of the formats that PhotoFlash supports, and you can save files in the
JPEG file format.
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DCS (Desktop Color Separation, version 1.0) is a variation of the EPS file
format used by page layout programs. It is also one form of CMYK file. An
image stored in the
CMYK format used by DCS 1.0 is split into five separate
image files. Four of these files represent the color components of the
image: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. The fifth is the Master file,
which shows how the whole image looks and can be viewed from within a
page layout program or from within PhotoFlash.
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