| GIF Most
color images and backgrounds on the Web are GIF files. This compact file
format is ideal for graphics that use only a few colors, and it was once
the most popular format for online color photos. However, GIF has lost
ground to the JPEG format when it comes to photos. GIF images are limited
to 256 colors, but JPEGs can contain up to 16 million colors--and they can
look almost as good as a photograph. |