GIF vs JPEG

GIF=Graphical Interchange Format

JPEG or JPG=Joint Photograph Experts Group

Introduction

GIF and JPG file formats have been around since the early days of web graphics. Both are compression formats for graphic files. Which extension do you wish to use? The answer depends on what type of image it is you wish to compress.

JPEG ( jay-peg )

The JPG format supports a palette of over 16 million colors.This will allow you to compress high photograph quality images without much loss in quality, but the large palette could make for a huge file size, depending on the quality of the original image. When JPG compresses the file, the more you compress it the more you will loose quality in the image. Basically JPG compression equals loss of image data. You should experiment with your file to see how much you can compress it before you save it, to see how much quality you are willing to loose for the sake of compression. With this in mind, JPG still works great for high quality images.For images that are less in color complexity, compression may be too obvious and the degradation in quality will be much more noticeable.

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