Image file formats are standardized means of organizing
and storing digital images.
Types
of Image Format
JPEG
JPEG is short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, and
is the most popular among the image formats used on the web.
JPEG discards most of the information to
keep the image file size small; which means some degree of quality is also lost.
GIF
GIF, short for Graphics Interchange Format, is limited to
the 8 bit palette with only 256 colors and
GIF compresses images by reducing the number of colors in
rich color images or replaces multiple occurring patterns (large patterns) into one.
BMP
The Windows Bitmap or
BMP files are image files within the Microsoft Windows operating system.
These files are large
and uncompressed, but the images are rich in color, high in quality, simple and
compatible in all Windows OS and programs.
TIF
TIF is lossless which
is considered the highest quality format for commercial work.
It is capable of
recording halftone image data with different pixel intensities, thus is the
perfect format for graphic storage, processing and printing.
PNG
PNG is lossless so it
does not lose quality and detail after image compression.
PNG can support 24 bit
RGB color images, grayscale images, both with and without alpha channels.
Image Format
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