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Portable Arbitrary Map
The 'universal' bitmap format of the Netpbm toolkit.
PAM (Portable Arbitrary Map) is the newest and most flexible member of the Netpbm format family (which includes PBM, PGM, and PPM). While earlier formats were strictly strictly black/white, grayscale, or RGB, PAM was designed to be generic. It can handle images with any number of channels, including transparency (alpha) channels, which the older formats lacked.
A PAM file starts with a text header defining width, height, maximum component value (depth), and 'TUPLTYPE' (describing what the channels mean, e.g., 'RGB_ALPHA' or 'CMYK'). The data follows as a raw binary stream of tuples. It unifies the parsing logic: instead of writing separate parsers for PBM/PGM/PPM, a program can just implement a PAM parser to handle everything.
Introduced with the Netpbm library updates to solve the 'Alpha Channel Problem'. The older formats (PPM) had no standard way to store transparency, leading to hacky non-standard extensions. PAM standardized this by allowing arbitrary tuple types.
Photoshop Document
The industry standard for digital image editing.
PSD (Photoshop Document) is the proprietary file format of Adobe Photoshop. It is the de facto standard in the digital art, photography, and graphic design industries. Unlike final output formats (JPG, PNG), a PSD is a working file that preserves the editor's state: independent layers, editable text, masks, blend modes, filters, and paths.
A PSD file is divided into five major parts: File Header, Color Mode Data, Image Resources (metadata like paths, guides), Layer and Mask Information (the bulk of the data), and Image Data (a flattened backward-compatible preview). This structure allows Photoshop to save complex non-destructive editing states.
Created by Thomas Knoll in 1988 for the original version of Photoshop. It has evolved with every version of the software, adding support for new features (vectors in v6, smart objects in CS2) while maintaining remarkable backward compatibility.
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