TIFF Tagged Image File Format

Animation No Commonly Used For: Transparency No Storage container for faxes and other digital images Available in compressed To store raw bitmap data and un-compressed by some programs and formats devices such as scanners Compression is High resolution printing advisable Desktop Publishing images Colors 16 M (24-bit)

PNG Portable Network Graphics

Animation no (MNG does) Commonly Used For:
Replacing GIF and TIFF images Lossless compression Online viewing of Originally 256 colours images Now supports full-colour images

Transparency yes

GIF Graphics Interchange Format

Animation Standard format for animation on WWW. Most common format for: Transparency yes Lossless compression Colors = 256 (8-bit)
Text Clip art, animations, icons, logos Simple diagrams, line drawings Graphics with large blocks of a single color Graphics with transparent areas Images displayed on computer screens and on websites.

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group

Commonly Used For: Animation No Desktop publishing Transparency No photographs Lossy compression Photographs and natural artwork Colors 16.7 M (24 Scanned photographs bit) Emailing photographs High quality but larger Digital camera file size than a GIF photographs

BMP - Bitmap
Animation No Commonly Used For: Transparency No Editing raster graphics Uncompressed Creating icons and 256 colors wallpaper Large file size - not On-screen display well suited for transfer across the Internet or for print publications