Image File Formats

Some images formats are better than others for certain tasks. Click below to find out more!

A 256 colour format which limits it's usefulness but still good for icons and other graphics. Animations too!

JPEG compression is beaten by newer formats but the files can be viewed on almost everything!

Newer version of JPEG with more features and better compression!

A lossless image format that is used for graphics and archiving.

A new format, compression is not great but fast and easy to implement in programs.

Newer format by Google with even better compression! Suitable for all kinds of images!