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WP Chapter 5
Gif/JPEG
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Computer Science
10th Grade
10/07/2008

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JPEG
Definition
Works best for continuous tone images, like photographs
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JPEG
Definition
Can represent images with up to 16 million different colors.
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JPEG
Definition
Is a “lossy” format because to reduce the file size, it throws away some information about the image
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JPEG
Definition
Does not support transparency
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GIF
Definition
Works best for images with few solid colors, and images with lines, like logos, clip art, and small text in images
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GIF
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Can represent images with up to 256 different colors.
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GIF
Definition
also compresses the file to reduce its size, but doesn’t throw anything way. So it is a “lossless” format.
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GIF
Definition
Allows one background color to be set to “transparent “ so that anything underneath the image will show through
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