Damn you, Adobe! Damn you, Photoshop! It's very much like BMP in that regard, except that PNG actually compresses images, so it results in much smaller files. A photograph saved as a PNG will likely be at least 5 times larger than a equivalent JPEG image, which very little improvement in visible quality. Of course, this may be a desirable outcome if you're not concerned about filesize, and want to get the best quality image you can. Lossless compression Lossless compression algorithms reduce file size without losing image quality, though they are not compressed into as small a file as a lossy compression file.
When image quality is valued above file size, lossless algorithms are typically chosen. Lossy compression Lossy compression algorithms take advantage of the inherent limitations of the human eye and discard invisible information.
Most lossy compression algorithms allow for variable quality levels compression and as these levels are increased, file size is reduced. At the highest compression levels, image deterioration becomes noticeable as "compression artifacting".
The images below demonstrate the noticeable artifacting of lossy compression algorithms; select the thumbnail image to view the full size version. Nearly every digital camera can save images in the JPEG format, which supports 8 bits per color red, green, blue for a bit total, producing relatively small files.
When not too great, the compression does not noticeably detract from the image's quality, but JPEG files suffer generational degradation when repeatedly edited and saved. Photographic images may be better stored in a lossless non-JPEG format if they will be re-edited, or if small "artifacts" blemishes caused by the JPEG's compression algorithm are unacceptable.
The TIFF image format is not widely supported by web browsers. TIFF remains widely accepted as a photograph file standard in the printing business. The PNG file excels when the image has large, uniformly coloured areas.
Many older browsers currently do not support the PNG file format, however, with Internet Explorer 7, all contemporary web browsers fully support the PNG format. The Adam7-interlacing allows an early preview, even when only a small percentage of the image data has been transmitted. This makes the GIF format suitable for storing graphics with relatively few colors such as simple diagrams, shapes, logos and cartoon style images. The GIF format supports animation and is still widely used to provide image animation effects.
It also uses a lossless compression that is more effective when large areas have a single color, and ineffective for detailed images or dithered images. Typically, BMP files are uncompressed, hence they are large; the advantage is their simplicity, wide acceptance, and use in Windows programs. Great for illustrations and photos. Source: Image File Formats. GIF used to be all over the web but has fallen out of favor since it only supports a limited number of colors and is patented.
The lossy compression used tends to mar sharp lines. It's in common use on the web now. These image formats may use different compression algorithms, different color representations, different capability in carrying additional data other than the image itself, and so on.
For web applications, I'd say jpeg or gif is good enough. Jpeg is used more often due to its higher compression ratio, and gif is typically used for light weight animation where a flash or something similar is an over kill, or places where transparent background is desired.
PNG can be used too, but I don't have much experience with that. Additionally, JPEG is the file format name. JPG is commonly used abbreviated file extension for this format, as you needed to have a 3-letter file extension for earlier Windows systems.
TIFF can have extended options I. Geo referencing for GIS applications. I recommend only ever using JPEG for photographs, never for images like clip art, logos, text, diagrams, line art.
The named ones are all raster graphics, but beside that don't forget the more and more important vectorgraphics. There are compressed and uncompressed types in a more or less way , but they're all lossless. Most important are:. The file extension tells you how the image is saved. Some of those formats just save the bits as they are, some compress the image in different ways, including lossless and lossy methods.
The Web can tell you, although I know some of the patient responders will outline them here. For the specified difference and usage between the varies of image formats have a good discussion above already. However, I want to add something for the overall process of capturing a picture and storing them. Or you can say the construct process as we can draw or make pictures with computers now.
Also there are stuff like Pixel Format and Color Space. After you got the basic pixel information, there must be a way for storing them. For storing the pixels info a file, we need a convention and related algorithms. For saving space, there are compression, but basically problem is encoding the pixels to bytes and decoding the bytes to pixels for display.
A typical image file may be consisted by several parts, basically two: meta data or file header and pixel data section. The meta data tells about the image itself, maybe height and width , file format , etc. And the pixel data section is the real section who deals with the real picture. So image files have no priority but also bytes stream actually.
For displaying, maybe we should get something to know how monitor works. The GIF format supports colors i. As they use only colors, they make for compact images and consume less bandwidth. GIF is widely used in animation because it enables transparency and interlacing an image becomes progressively clearer as it downloads. They lack the color range to be usable for photographs and are gradually being used less. It was also designed as an open patent free format usable by everybody, as against the proprietary GIF format.
PNG files do not support animation. PNG files are also lossless files retaining color information when they are compressed. Richer images will lead to larger file sizes.
The native file format of the Windows platform is like the parent format to the above three. BMP formats commonly do not allow for image compression unless they are saved in any of the formats discussed above. Use of a specific image format will vary according to the situation, but these are the thumb rules you can follow. Removing unwanted followers from your Instagram account is quite easy.
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What's more, if the image is extremely simple, like a white rectangle, the file will still be huge. It is one of the most used formats on the internet, and the reason for that is simple: compared to. To do this, he divides the image into blocks of eight by eight pixels and compares each one to one of the 64 patterns represented in the image below. See the standards below:. The patterns in the lower right corner have very different pixels in a very small space.
And our eyes usually can't even see those small differences. Therefore, depending on the compression quality chosen by the user, blocks with patterns like this are replaced by simpler blocks. This allows the final file to be much lighter, with very little loss of quality unless we can tell at a glance.
So the reduced size is the main advantage of JPG files. The downside is that the type of compression it uses works best for photos.
But if you take graphic images, like company logos and designs, you usually end up with very noticeable distortions. See, for example, what happened to the star below:. The acronym. Naturally, as the compression is not so harmful, the final image ends up being heavier than if it were in. With a mixture of images in. But the main advantage of. Transparency is usually indicated, in image editors, as a checkerboard.
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