- better for photographic type images(continuous tone)
- millions of colors(16.7 million)
- lossy compression(throws out information to reduce file size)
- no transparency
- no animation
- has a newer version(jpeg 2000)
- reduce file size by increasing compression(which reduces quality)
|
- better for images with large areas of flat color like graphics, logos, etc.
- lossless compression(although adobe now has lossy gifs)
- 256 colors or less
- allows animation
- allows 1 bit transparency(each pixel is either completely transparent or opaque)
- reduce file size by reducing the number of colors
|
- 2 versions(8bit and 24 bit)
- poorer browser support
- PNG preserves transparency in grayscale and RGB images using alpha channels, but results in larger files than jpg (using PNG-24)
- PNG format supports RGB, indexed-color, grayscale, and Bitmap-mode images without alpha channels
|