Notes when using image formats on the website

Advantages of JPG (JPEG)

• Color depth from 24bit to 16 million colors.
• JPEG is the most commonly used image standard for most digital cameras today.
• Suitable for creating small image files.
• Suitable for images with more than 256 colors.
• JPEG is compatible with all web designs today.
• Best used, most effective for black and white photos, photos with complex colors, still life photos, everyday photos, portraits.

Advantages of PNG:

• The background image is not jagged.
• Standard compression LossLess, which means that the image after being compressed still retains the same quality.
• Transparency can be set between opaque and fully transparent, giving us an opaque look.
• The PNG format can be placed on top of any image and still keep it visible.
• PNG format is good for web/blog, flat color patches, Logo design, images with transparent or semi-transparent background.
• Suitable for images as simple as text.
• Photo is in the process of being edited.

Advantages of GIF images

• GIF supports few colors, so the files are usually much smaller than JPEG.
• The image is compressed according to the Lossless standard, so there is no data loss when compressing.
• Vivid GIF with animation: GIF is simple, compatible, and automatically recognized on most web browsers. It works by creating a series of GIF frames that are then combined to create an animated image.
• GIFs are best used for: simple images like stroke-only drawings, color palettes, and simple illustrations. The animations, web images do not have too many colors, small icons.

When should JPEG, GIF, PNG image formats be effective?