GD: gif challenge again!!!!

Love Jennifer!

GD:Gif challenge

Jlaw with buscemi eyes

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GD: Notes

Graphic File Format 

• understanding Format
• choice and Image 
• Compression

What is Compression?

• Compression makes your file smaller
• Misused it will might look bad or sound bad do to the low quality

File Formats

• All computers, files are packaged as file formats 
• Format is determined by origin 
• Graphic Files can be reduced by using image compression formats 

Lossy vs. Lossless

• They are the 2 categories for compression
• Lossy: takes all the data that is not needed and throws its away
• Upside: makes file much smaller
• Downside: makes quality lower 
• Lossless: Reduces very little 
• Upside: preserves the file with higher quality
• Downside: File isn't as small

Graphic Formats 

• TIF, JPG and GIF are 3 most common for printing, scanning and displaying images over the internet 
• PNG is a common web format for high quality, it can contain an alpha (transparency) channel, however it doesn't have adjustable compression 
• Each Format has advantages and disadvantages 

File Format TIF:

• Stands for: Tagged Image Format 
• Common for Desktop publishing, print, photo and graphic design
• Lossless
• Large File size, Not internet friendly 
• Not browser compatible 

File Format JPG:

• Stands For: Joint Photographers Expert Group 
• digital photography 
• works best for photo content
• Lossy Format 
• You can reduce file 10:1 without showing much compression artifact 
• Compression is adjustable 

File Format GIF

• Stands For: Graphics Interchange Format 
• Best for images that have flat color or even tone (example: Cartoon)
• Reducing image size by "Indexing" color from 3 channels to 1 
• adjustable changing color bit levels from 1 to 8 
• Contains no DPI (Dots Per Inch) data for printing. Not good format for printing 
• They can be animated 

Know your Pixels 

• TIF and JPG are best for pixels that blend together also known as "Contiguous Pixels"
• GIF is best for flat, even tone images "non-contiguous pixels" 

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