
#PHONE PHOTO FORMAT NOT ACCEPTED FOR MAC FULL#
So for a full color image, it may lose up to 99.998% of its colors. In other words, GIF is lossless for images with 256 colors and below.

GIF is still a popular image format on the internet because image size is relatively small compared to other image compression types.Ĭompared to JPEG, it is lossless and thus more effective with compressing images with a single color, but pales in detailed or dithered pictures. GIF, short for Graphics Interchange Format, is limited to the 8 bit palette with only 256 colors.


24-bit color, with up to 16 million colors.Since 1994, JPEG has been considered the standard. Moreover it is less grainy then GIF, the old king of the internet roost. JPEG is very web friendly because the file is smaller, which means it takes up less room, and requires less time to transfer to a site. JPEG compression of varying levels, from highest to lowest.Īlmost every digital camera can shoot and save in the JPEG format.
