Items in your comparison basket compare >>
Table not found
Image Format Comparisons This is the "sequel" to to Lethalgeek's Video File Comparison: here.

This includes Bitmap (Raster) and Vector formats.
.psd is considered (by me) a image format.

Clarification: All images formats can be animated by javascript. Only GIF (In this table) can be animated by default.

If anyone has a vector image editor and wants to do me a favor, just send me a note.

~DeltaArbiter
0 agree 0 disagree
created by deltaarbiter ( newsletter goon) | posted on 2008-08-10 | 1597 views |
[browsing in Tablefy]
JPEG GIF BMP RAW TIFF PNG SVG PSD JPEG2000
File extensions .jpg .jpeg .jpe .jif .jfif .jfi .gif .bmp .dib Depends on its own camera manufacture .tiff .tif .png .svg .svgz .psd .pdd .jp2 .j2c .j2k .jpx .jpf .j2c .j2k
Developed by Joint Photographic Experts Group CompuServce Microsoft Each by its own Camera manufacture Adobe World Wide Web Consortium World Wide Web Consortium Adobe Systems Joint Photographic Experts Group
Best used for Photograph, Paintings with smooth variation of tone and color Animation, website, cross-platform images Windows file system, cross-platform images Camera, scanner Scanning images, line art, hi-def imaging gif replacement, World Wide Web, Photograph, Avatars Mobile device, lossless graphic Image editing, photomanipulation JPEG replacement, Military application, extreme HD imaging, Space agency
Lossy?
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Lossless?
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Common (by DeltaArbiter)?
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Full Name Joint Photographic Experts Group Graphics Interchange Format Windows Bitmap RAW image file Tagged Image File Format Portable Network Graphics Scalable Vector Graphics PhotoShop Document Joint Photographic Experts Group 2000
DeltaArbiter's Rating
Can be animated by default?
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Advantages Small relative file size, cross-platform, most common format, Can be animated., cross-platform, common format Used in operating system It's pre-processed data for a image. N/A Used for storage, lossless, Lossless, cross-platfrom Can be expanded infinitely without pixelization, can be edited with text editor (not recommended) Allows mask, allows undoes/redoes, allows transparencies, etc. Lossless, not much advantages
Disadvantages Lossy compression Can be large file size if animated Large file size N/A Possible large file size None Needs software (Adobe Illustrator) to graphically edit it. Needs image editing software to read/edit it. Long decompression time, possible large file size, not read by many programs.
Can be read by Microsoft Paint?
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Can be read by Adobe Photoshop?
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes, need a plugin: JPEG2000 Plugin
Can be read by Mozilla Firefox?
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Can be read by Internet Explorer?
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes, needs a plugin
No
No
Can be set a Windows wallpaper?
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Image Sample (Courtesy of DeltaArbiter :) JPEG sample GIF sample BMP sample RAW sample TIFF sample PNG sample Don't have any vector editing program. If anyone can do me a favor, just send me a note. Thanks! PSD sample JPEG2000 sample
embed code:
What do you think?
agree disagree
2 Comments
/compare/2589/Image-Format-Comparisons
deltaarbiter posted 2008-08-21
Can't. It won't read RAW. Or JPEG2000, I think. Wouldn't
look right if some was missing. Makes it uniform.
report as spam


wahyu posted 2008-08-21
hey, change the image sample to media >_
report as spam



Leave a comment