Pre-Project 7: Image File Formats

	JPEG	GIF	BMP	TIFF	PNG
Sample Image
Acronym Meaning	Joint Photographic Experts Group	Graphics Interchange Format	Windows Bitmap	Tagged Image File Format	Portable Network Graphics
PROS	24-bit color, with up to 16 million colors rich colors for photographs that need fine attention to color detail most used & widely accepted image format compatible in most OS (Mac, PC, Linux)	can support transparency can do small animation effects "Lossless" quality–they contain the same amount of quality as the original, except it now only has 256 colors Great for images with limited colors, or with flat regions of color	Works well with most Windows programs and OS, you can use it as a Windows wallpaper	very flexible format, supports several typed of compression like JPEG, LZW, ZIP or no compression at all high quality image format, all color and data info are stored can now be saved with layers	"lossless", so it doesn't lose quality and detail after image compression creates smaller file sizes than GIF supports transparency better than GIF
CONS	tends to discard a lot of data tends to create artifacts after compression can't be animated doesn't support transparency	only supports 256 colors oldest format on the web, having existed since 1989. It hasn't been updated since, and sometimes, the file size is larger than PNG.	does not scale or compress well huge image file, not web friendly no real advantage over other formats	very large file size - long transfer time, huge disk space consumption, and slow loading time	not good for large images bc they tend to generate a very large file unlike GIF, cannot be animated not supported by all web browsers
Best to Use in...	web images	animated graphics and logos	Windows wallpaper	web images	logos and transparents