What are GIF images used for?

Question

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Answer 1

Gifs are used for primarily two things: images with large areas of the same colors, and animation. Animated gifs, however, are just not as good as using Flash, but simple gif animations are good. Gifs are also compressed file formats, which is where they specialize in large areas of the same color, such as most cartoon-quality images and similar.

Answer 2

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is an 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format using a palette of up to 256 distinct colors from the 24-bit RGB color space. The format was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability. It also supports animations and even allows a separate palette of 256 colors for each frame.

A GIF image employs lossless data compression so that the file size of an image may be reduced without degrading the visual quality, provided the image can be rendered with only 256 colours. (However, there is a hack that can overcome this limitation under certain circumstances; see true colour.) This limitation makes the GIF format unsuitable for color photographs (which are more commonly seen in the JPEG format) and other images with continuous color, but well-suited for more simple images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color

Answer 3

I'm not an expert - no doubt someone will correct me if I'm wrong but:

Graphic Interface Files are used on websites. Many graphic packages can be used to create GIFs which can then be inserted onto web pages for display on the Internet. GIFs are commonly used for logos, cartoons, buttons that sort of thing. Photos are often JPEGs. You can also have Animated GIFs which are created using a special graphic software which work like a flick book, the user creates each 'frame' of their animation and then saves it. When you stick in on yer webpage, the images are displayed one after the other animating the image.

Answer 4

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is an 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format using a palette of up to 256 distinct colors from the 24-bit RGB color space. The format was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on web sites for animated icons

Answer 5

Graphics Interchange Format or GIF should only be used for line art, clip art, etc where the image contains fewer than 256 colours and should never be used for photographic type images.

GIF's contain up to 256 indexed colours a JPEG can contain millions of colours. Contrary to popular belief, it is not an alternative to the JPEG format; the two are completely different.

Answer 6

GIF is a slightly outdated format that only has a couple of purposes these days. It has the ability to use indexed palettes, an optional transparent colour, and (its most widely used feature) it can handle simple animation. Its biggest drawback is the fact that it can only take up to 256 colours. For this reason it is not as suitable for photos as JPG for instance.

Answer 7

UnFREEz is a severe-speed residing residing house residing house windows application which will take any style of images, saved as separate GIF files, and create a unmarried lively GIF from those pictures. it extremely is actual freeware.

Answer 8

You should ask why are Gifs used over jpgs...
Well they are loseless meaning that every pixel has it's own color and can have transparencies (transparent pixels in the image), so they are great for use in web design but nowadays the png format is coming strong with the same functions.

Answer 9

Same as jpeg, tif, bmp, etc. It is one of the common formats used for storing pictures. Originally created by Earthlink for doing graphics on the web. When they later attempted to collect royalties for its use, jpeg take its place. Today it is free. It makes relatively small pictures, so it is good for the Internet where you want your files as small as possible. It was also the only standard format which can do animated pictures before Flash.

Answer 10

They are an alternative to JPG. They have a different kind of compression. Their most common uses are for animation.