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Image File Formats Overview

The document outlines various image file formats, including JPEG, GIF, PNG, Bitmap, TIFF, WEBP, HEIF, and SVG, highlighting their characteristics, advantages, and typical use cases. JPEG is commonly used for web applications due to its lossy compression, while TIFF is favored for high-quality printing with no data loss. Each format has unique properties that make it suitable for different applications, such as GIF for animations and PNG for lossless storage.

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Image File Formats Overview

The document outlines various image file formats, including JPEG, GIF, PNG, Bitmap, TIFF, WEBP, HEIF, and SVG, highlighting their characteristics, advantages, and typical use cases. JPEG is commonly used for web applications due to its lossy compression, while TIFF is favored for high-quality printing with no data loss. Each format has unique properties that make it suitable for different applications, such as GIF for animations and PNG for lossless storage.

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IMAGE FILE FORMAT

• Image format describes how data related to image will


be stored.
• Data can be stored in compressed, uncompressed or
vector format.
• Each format has its own pros and cons.
• Image types such as TIFF are good for printing while
JPEG or PNG are best for the web.

TYPES:
JPEG
• JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group.
• It is a loss-prone (lossy) format in which data is lost to
reduce the size of the image.
• It is commonly used for digital cameras, e-mail,
PowerPoint etc. Making it ideal for web use.

GIF
• GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format.
• It is used for web graphics.
• It can be animated and are limited to only 256
colours, which can allow for transparency.
• They are typically small in size and portable.
PNG
• It stands for Portable Network Graphics and is a
lossless image format.
• It designed to replace GIF as GIF supported 256 colours
unlike PNG which supports 16 million colours.
• PNG requires more storage space than JPEG.
Bitmap
• It is developed by Microsoft for windows.
• It is same as TIFF due to lossless, no compression
property.
• Due to BMP being proprietary format, it is generally
recommended to use TIFF files.
• File extension - .bmp
TIFF
• It stands for Tagged Image File Format.
• It stores image data without losing any data.
• It doesn’t perform any compression on images and a
high quality image is obtained.
• The size of the image is usually very large and is good
for printing.
WEBP
• It was created by Google to replace JPEG as the
standard format for images on the web by shrinking
image files to expedite the loading of online pages.
• It supports both lossy and lossless compression.

HEIF
• It stands for High Efficiency Image Format.
• It is used to obtain a high quality image usually on a
mobile device.
SVG
• It stands for Scalable Vector Graphics.
• This format is used for logos, icons and graphics that
require scalability.

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