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Because Encore is so tightly integrated with Photoshop and the rest of the creative suite, it makes sense that it can understand quite a few different image formats for whenever you want to bring in a new image asset. All we have to do to bring in an asset and take a look at the formats that it understands is by going to the File Menu, choosing Import As and choosing Asset. If you look at the bottom here where it says Enable, you can click here and you can go down to where it says Still File and you can see the extensions of the files that Encore understands. So I just want to spend a few moments talking about some of them which are the most commonly-used ones and give you just a feeling as to what files you might have on your computer that are ready to go right into Encore. The most common file that you will use, of course, is the PSD, which stands for Photoshop Document. Encore understands everything that you make in Photoshop pretty well. So when you want to make a menu from scratch, make buttons, PSD is the way to go. You don't even have to save it as a format such as JPEG or tiff or anything. It brings in PSD. Another format you might want to use is the GIF or jif format. And this is mostly used for the Internet and this file type is best used for images with flat colors and no gradation. The PNG format stands for Portable Network Graphics and this file format, as well as PSD, understands transparencies and alphas so that it will respect any area that is transparent in your image and bring that in appropriately. Targa is used quite a bit in the 3D realm and it's a good format for bringing in images as well. A lot of 3D artists like to use this format for saving textures that they place onto their 3D models. You have the TIFF format, which stands for Tag Image File Format and it's an interchangeable file format that works between the Macintosh platform as well as the Windows PC platform. Now, most of these formats do the same thing, but I believe that the tiff format was specifically designed to bridge that gap in between the two platforms. So these are some of the file formats that you can bring into Encore to work with when you want to build menus and slideshows and that kind of thing.