Whats the difference between JPG, GIF, BMP and TIF?
When creating webpages, there are a lot of things to remember and the thing that seems to be forgotten the most, is making sure that images have the right extension on them. For example you have a GIF (image.gif) file, but in the HTML document, you want to show is a photo, but with a JPG extension (image.jpg). This of course will cause the browser to give you a nice little red x. All this would be solved if there weren’t so many different graphic formats. Of course, each format is different, so the solution is to pay closer attention, and also to learn what each format is, and why they are used in different situations. Five basic graphic formats are briefly described below: The first thing that we need to understand is that there are 2 types of image compression, lossy, and lossless. Different image formats use different compression formats. Lossless compression compresses an image without removing any data. Lossy compression will discard some of the data so that it can be compressed m
