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Photo

BMP: The standard bit-mapped graphics format
environment. By convention,
extension.
GIF: Pronounced jiff or giff and stands for graphics interchange format, it is a
bit-mapped graphics file
uses data compression, but it is limited to a 256-color palette.
JPG: Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, and pronounced jay-peg.
JPEG is a lossy compression
files sizes to about 5% of their normal size, some detail is lost in the compression.
JP2: JP2 is the file extension for the new image format called JPEG2000 based
on the latest image compression technology.
PNG: Short for Portable Network Graphics, is a
similar to GIF. In fact, PNG was approved as a standard by the World Wide
Web consortium to replace GIF because GIF uses a patented
scheme. In contrast, PNG is patent and license-free.
TIFF: Acronym for Tagged Image File Format, and is one of the most widely
supported file formats
TIFF graphics can be any resolution, and they can be black and white,
scaled, or color. Files in TIFF format often end with a .tif extension.
graphics files
format. GIF supports
technique for color images. Although it can reduce
for storing bit-mapped
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used in the
in the BMP format end with a .BMP
color and various resolutions. It
bit-mapped graphics format
images on personal
Windows
data compression
computers.
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