JPG Vs. PNG Vs. GIF, Which Is Better? - FlexClip

Briefs What are the differences between JPG, PNG and GIF? When we need an image for web, logo, or art, etc., which format is a better option? Is there any easy image converter? Find your answer now! Make a GIF Video Templates

JPG, PNG and GIF have become the most common image containers. Though we've been very familiar with these image formats, most people can hardly tell their differences, not speaking of answering the question "When should you use a JPG, a PNG or a GIF?".

If you are one of them, the article is written for you. After reading through the article, you'll know the major differences between JPG, PNG and GIF and when to use them easily.

Part 1 - What Are JPG, PNG and GIF? JPG(JPEG) PNG GIF Part 2 - JPG vs. PNG vs. GIF Table Part 3 - How to Convert JPG/PNG/GIF? How to Convert PNG to JPG or Turn JPG to PNG?

Part 1 - What Are JPG, PNG and GIF?

JPG(JPEG)

"JPEG is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable trade-off between storage size and image quality. " - Wikipedia.

JPG, a.k.a. JPEG, is short for "Joint Photographic Experts Group". It's a standard image file type. JPG technology finds & deletes redundant information as well as graphics that humans can't see.

In most cases, JPG's bit depth is 8. - That means it has 2^8(Red) x 2^8(Green) x 2^8(Blue) = 16,777,216 colors.

Image: 8-bit JPG color depth.

PNG

"Portable Network Graphics is a raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG was developed as an improved, non-patented replacement for Graphics Interchange Format. PNG supports palette-based images, grayscale images, and full-color non-palette-based RGB or RGBA images." - Wikipedia.

Originally, PNG was designed to replace GIF, since GIF had a controversy over its licensing agreement. PNG adopts LZ77 and more compression algorithms to mark & memorize repetitive data, therefore, compressing PNG file is lossless. PNG's bit depth supports 8 bit, 24 bit and 32 bit. PNG allows you to save your image with a transparent background. - All merits mentioned here make millions of webmasters choose PNG as web logos & pictures.

Note: Not all browsers support PNG-8 (8-bit PNG). Therefore, it's better to avoid PNG-8 when the image is created for world wide web.

GIF

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