What do JPG, GIF, BMP and PNG formats mean respectively?

1, BMP is the abbreviation of English Bitmap (bitmap), which is the standard image file format in Windows operating system, and can be supported by a variety of Windows applications. With the popularity of the Windows operating system and the development of a wealth of Windows applications, the BMP bitmap format has rightly been widely used. This format is characterized by the richness of the image information contained in the almost uncompressed, but this leads to its inherent shortcomings - occupy too much disk space. Therefore, BMP is currently more popular on a stand-alone computer.

2. The full name of GIF is Graphics Interchange Format, which can be translated as Graphics Interchange Format, and is used to display indexed color images in Hypertext Markup Language, which is widely used in the Internet and other online service systems. GIF is a public image format standard, copyrighted by Compu Serve, Inc.

3, JPEG is a common image format, which is developed by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (Joint Photographic Experts Group). JPEG file extension .jpg or .jpeg, which uses lossy compression to remove redundant images and color data, in order to obtain a very high compression rate at the same time can show a very rich and vivid images, that is, you can use a lossy compression method to remove redundant images and color data. vivid images, that is, you can use less disk space to get better picture quality.

4, png: Portable Network Graphics is a lossless compression of the bitmap image format, which is designed to try to replace the GIF and TIFF file formats, while adding some features that the GIF file format does not have. png uses lossless data compression algorithms derived from the LZ77, generally used in JAVA programs, web pages or S60 programs, the reason for which is that it is a high compression ratio. high compression ratio and small file size.

5, TIFF: Tag Image File Format (TIFF) is a flexible bitmap format, mainly used for storing images, including photographs and artwork, originally developed by Aldus and Microsoft for PostScript printing.TIFF has become a popular high-bitmap image format along with JPEG and PNG. format for high-bit color images.

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