ICT - Image Formats
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Formats
TYPES OF IMAGE FORMATS
● JPG/JPEG : Joint Photographic Experts Group
● GIF : Graphics Interchange Format
● PNG : Portable Network Graphics
● BMP : Bitmap Image File
● TIFF : Tagged Image File Format
POINTS TO REMEMBER!
● Lossy compression is when data is compressed and where parts of
the data are lost in the process, to reduce the file size.
● Lossless compression is a type of compression which works by
reducing waste space in a piece of data. For example if there is a
data package file “XXXXXYYYYYY” ,it would be reduced to
“5X6Y”, as this has the same meaning but takes up less space.
● There is no actual difference between JPEG and JPG files and the
only difference is that the JPG file format was created at a time when
you could only use a 3 letter word extension for naming file formats.
No Compression High Compression
JPG/JPEG
Lossy or Lossless? Lossy
Transparency? No
Animation? No
File Size? Small
Commonly Used? Yes
JPG/JPEG IMAGE
100% Quality
File Size: 54.3 KB
JPG/JPEG IMAGE
77% Quality
File Size: 41.7 KB
GIF
Lossy or Lossless? Lossless
Transparency? Yes
Animation? Yes
File Size? Large
Commonly Used? Yes
GIF
100% Quality
PNG
Lossy or Lossless? Lossless
Transparency? Yes
Animation? Yes
File Size? Small
Commonly Used? Yes
PNG
100% Quality
File Size: 134 KB
PNG
26% Quality
File Size: 35.3 KB
BMP
Lossy or Lossless? Lossless
Transparency? No
Animation? No
File Size? Large
Commonly Used? No
BMP
100% Quality
File Size: 730 KB
BMP
100% Quality
File Size: 364 KB
TIFF
Lossy or Lossless? Lossless
Transparency? Yes
Animation? No
File Size? Large
Commonly Used? No
TIFF
100% Quality
File Size: 5 MB
TIFF
28% Quality
File Size: 1.38 MB
Summary
● The most common file formats include JPEG/JPG, PNG, and GIF.
● Animation is possible on PNG image file format.
● GIFs are animated.
● TIFF and BMP image file formats are not used commonly, though TIFF is used by
Professional Photographers and Editors.