Image file formats

JPEG

JPEG - published in 1991. Format used for images on WWW sites. For example it has possibility to split the image into rectangular pieces, which may have different sizes, resolutions, compression ratios. This format is the most popular among those with lossy compression, it is supported by almost all browsers.

JPEG 2000

JPEG 2000 - improved JPEG format, difference is improved compression which give us better image quality, but it has disadvantage, a large computational complexity.

JPEG

JPS - format for presenting stereoscopic images, images for the right and left eye are stored next to each other.

DjVu

DjVu - format designed to store scanned documents in electronic form, with maintaining small file size and quality equivalent to the original paper.

TIFF

TIFF - Developed in 1986, it contains compression lossy and lossless. It allows you to store the alpha channel (transparency level by using the RGB model).

PNG

PNG - Graphics format with lossless compression, created as a successor to the GIF in 1995, because of patent rights imposed on it.

GIF

GIF - file format with lossless compression. It supports 256 colors in an image block. Commonly used on the web sites because of the ability to create animations with two-state transparency.

FLIF

FLIF - His files are approximately 43% smaller than typical PNG files while maintaining the same image quality. However, this is the format which is still underway, for example the format has problems with shades of gray, optimization and cooperation with browsers etc.

XCF

XCF - This is internal file format graphics from GIMP. It keeps the selection layers, paths etc. XCF not apply compression.

XPM

XPM - format without compression, using ASCII characters. Used in the graphical system X Window System. Designed primarily to create a bitmaps, simple objects.

PSD

PSD - Format used to store two-dimensional graphics in Adobe Photoshop. In this format, you can record images with 16 bits per channel and HDR images with 32 bits per channel.