Property | GIF
Graphics Interchange Format | JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group | PNG
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Color System | 8 bit indexed (256 colors) | RGB (24 bit; millions of colors) |
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Compression | Lossless Compression (LZW; horizontal repeating units) | "Lossy" Compression
(compression optimized for gradual color changes) | Lossless Compression | Lossless (gzip) | |
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Property | GIF
Graphics Interchange Format | JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group | PNG
Portable Network Graphic | SVG Scalable Vector Graphic | |
Photograph
250 × 188 px | 29.3 kb | 16.8 kb | 25.8 kb (indexed, 8-bit) | 81.9 kb (RGB, 24-bit) | N/A |
Illustration
148 × 179 px | 1.47 kb | 6.12 kb | 1.02 kb (indexed, 8-bit) | 1.89 kb (RGB, 24-bit) | 0.6 kb |
Hot Air Balloon image is in the Public Domain and was obtained from PD Photo.
Illustration image from the original works of David Heitmeyer
Copyright © David Heitmeyer