JPG is a graphical file format for editing still images, it offers a symmetrical compression technique which is processor intensive and time consiming in both compression and decompression. The JPG file is a great format as it often manages to compress files to 1/10 of the size of the original file which is especially good for saving on bandwidth. The JPG format is often used in digital camera memory cards. The resultant 'lossy' file means that quality can never be recovered. JPG's are often used for web sites and email as they are generally smaller file sizes as they are lossy meaning that some image quality is lost when the JPG is compressed and saved.

GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program (LINUX).

PNG was intended to be able to transfer images on the Internet, not professional graphics, and so does not support other colour spaces (such as CMYK). PNG supports palettes of 24-bit RGB colors, RGB images or greyscale or RGB images. GIF as they also include an 8-bit transparency channel, which allows the colors in the image to fade from opaque to transparent GIF images only support fully opaque or fully transparent pixels. GIF file), but without those copyright limitations it cannot be animated like a GIF image. PNG uses indexed colors and lossless compression (like a. It was created originally to replace the GIF file format when it was announced that the companies who created the GIF format wanted royalties. PNG pronounced ping is a format for storing bitmapped (raster) images on computers.

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