What is the difference between GIF and JPG image files?
With large files, GIF files tend to be larger than an equivalent JPEG. b) GIF files are limited to 256 colors. c) GIF files can have a transparent background. d) Compressed-format GIF files could involve patent royalties. e) Several GIF images can be combined into a single file to produce animation. f) For large files, JPEG files tend to be smaller than an equivalent GIF. g) JPEG files can handle 24-bit color, for 16.7 million colors (called “true color”). In practice, few images have more than 32k colors, even flesh-color images. It is quite unlikely you could tell the difference between 65k colors (16 bit) and 24 bits. h) JPEG files can’t have transparent backgrounds. i) JPEG uses a “lossy” compression algorithm. Some information is permanently removed to make the file size smaller.
