Depending on the compression factor, image information is lost. The compression method of the Joint Photographic Experts Group allows a highly efficient reduction of image files.

It is particularly popular in the printing business. The Tagged Image File Format is another method of saving files in the professional arena. This format is used by the professional Adobe Photoshop application and supports the multilayer technique. It allows a better form of transparency, but is not yet fully supported by all Internet browsers. It can generate the same quality of compressed files without loss of information and is freely available. The Portable Network Graphics is a popular replacement for the GIF format. GIF, despite its limitations, is popular predominantly because it allows transparency. In an Internet browser, these individual images are displayed so quickly one after the other that the impression of a moving image is created.

One special feature of GIF is the animated Gif, a GIF file in which several images are stored. For licensing reasons, many programs are no longer able to support this format.

The Graphics Interchange Format has been specially developed for data transfer on the Internet and has special features to support this. An advantage of this format is that graphics can be loaded and saved very quickly, but this positive aspect is outweighed by the file size.

BMPĪ format without compression used by Microsoft Windows. If you have created an image using GIMP-specific settings and save it in a different file format, information is lost. It supports the layer technique discussed later and other specific GIMP functions.

Gnu image manipulation program tools