The Best Graphic Formats For Your Needs?
Find out which graphic
formats are the best for you.
How many times have you
sent or received bloated emails with large graphic files
attached, which quickly fill your mailbox?
There
are generally 5 popular image formats theses are GIF, BMP, JPG,
TIFF & PNG
GIF Graphics
Interchange Format
The GIF format is ideal to create small images due to lossless
data compression, It can convert uncompressed images to 10% of
their original size, but this depends on the on the composition
and repetitive elements of the original image.
One of the downsides of
GIF is the limitation of only supporting up to 256 colours, but
this means it’s generally an ideal format for thumbnails or
other low colour images such as web pages.
JPG Joint
Photographic Experts Group
JPG pronounced jpeg is best suited to photos or other real scene
images; it’s one of the most common images around, it offers a
variable compression called lossy which means visual quality is
lost in the process, but the amount can be selected, lowering
the quality reduces image byte size and thus increasing quality
increases byte size which is a nice feature giving us the
ability to get a balance of both. Many digital cameras take
images in JPG format.
BMP Bitmap
Usually called bitmap the BMP file format is very common with
windows. BMP files in themselves are uncompressed meaning the
file sizes can be significantly more than many other formats.
Another downside to
bitmaps is due to the very way they are made of tiny squares;
this means that as an image is enlarged the squares also become
larger and give images a blocky look.
As BMP images store a
lot of redundant information using a compression application
such as ZIP will offer very good compression.
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
The TIFF image graphic formats was one very popular until PNG
arrived, it’s one of the very few formats that can actually
store multiple images, on the downside though as there are so
many variations of TIFF it can be difficult to find an
application to open them.
PNG Portable
Network Graphics
PNG which is the newest of the graphic formats considered a 24
bit version of the GIF format, it was actually supposed to
replace the GIF format; as such it employs the same lossless
data compression making it a good choice for most types of
graphics.
So if you looking for a
good all round file format that’s going to be around for a while
then checkout PNG, it’s supported by all good graphics
applications.
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