Which format takes up less space and is clearer? What are their characteristics?

Among the four formats you asked, JPG is the most common and takes up less space.

The following is an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of each format by some professionals, and you can compare it yourself.

BMP is an image file format independent of hardware devices, which is widely used. It uses bitmap storage format and does not use any other compression except image depth, so BMP files take up a lot of space. The image depth of BMP file can be selected as lbit, 4bit, 8bit and 24bit. When data is stored in a BMP file, images are scanned from left to right and from bottom to top.

Because BMP file format is the standard for exchanging data related to drawings in Windows environment, all graphics and image software running in Windows environment supports BMP image format.

The full name of Jpg should be JPEG.

JPEG pictures store a single raster image in 24-bit color. JPEG is a platform-independent format that supports the highest level of compression. However, this compression is lossy. Progressive JPEG files support interleaving.

PNG is an image file storage format developed in the mid-1990s. Its purpose is to replace GIF and TIFF file formats and add some functions that GIF file formats do not have.

TGA has a simple structure, belongs to the general format of graphics and image data, has great influence in the field of multimedia, and is the preferred format for converting computer-generated images into TV.

The biggest feature of TGA image format is that it can make irregular shapes of graphics and image files. Generally, graphics and image files are square. If there are circular, diamond or even empty image files, TGA can come in handy!

TGA format supports compression and uses lossless compression algorithm.