What picture quality is better JPEG, GIF or PNG?

Question

What picture quality is better JPEG, GIF or PNG?

Answer 1

as far as image quality goes, PNG is the best of the three, *.tiff is better though

Answer 2

Jpeg Vs Png

Answer 3

The answer should depend on your usage!

But the specific question is between Jpeg, Gif, & Png

If the question is informed, it is likely asking usage regarding webdesign and internet use.



This makes the question more complex, as in general one could answer Jpeg and get by in both a balance of speed with a balance of quality. PNG would be best to retain all sharpness for high quality images, but will load slower. GIF is something that need specifc use to use with success. You may have vector like or very high contrast images with little gradations, and GIF might be fine. It is limited to 256 colors while the other 2 formats are not.

Answer 4

PNG is the highest quality, after that follows JPEG and then lastly there is GIF. Most pictures (i.e. photos of peoples family, occasions, etc) are in the JPEG format. Tiny pictures (for example a website that uses pictures that you can click to take you to a page) are usually in GIF format cause they are lowest quality but load much faster. PNG is something used by more professional people, a lot of professional photographers will use PNG format.

Answer 5

It all depends on what you are using it for.



Jpegs are the predominant thing that your web browser recognizes. It's also the most predominant format for printers, even pro printing services. Jpegs are considered lossy by most, but programs do a fine job these days and most wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Jpegs are fine for most people, and no they have nothing to do with sharpness as long as you save them without compression.



Gifs can be seen by your browser, but it takes more info to make the same picture. They are lossless so if you're editing you can edit away without it being a problem. Gifs are bigger and take up more space, if you plan to have many images open at once it will slow down your computer.



PNGs were supposed to replace Gifs, but you honestly don't see it much. It's lossless like a Gif, and can vary in size compared to a Gif. But you don't usually see a PNG in a webpage.



If you're just asking which format to save something in and you're no graphic designer, Jpegs fit the bill.

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What picture quality is better JPEG, GIF or PNG?

Answer 7

PNG uses a lossless compression scheme and will always produce very good results. It provides the complete picture. JPEG implements lossy compression at a variable level. Higher compression results in smaller files with lesser quality, and vice-versa. At low compression JPEG produces very good quality. GIF is last. It uses indexed color versus true color and will not be a good choice for digital photography.



PNG only supports RGB and does not support other color spaces such as CMYK. For the average user that is not important. It supports transparency very well and can achieve better compression than GIF even with the much greater bit depth. GIF should be considered obsolete. PNG for the same quality as a high quality JPEG will result in a larger file (fewer pictures for memory).

Answer 8

JPEG is most commonly used.



You won't be able to shoot in GIF or PNG - however, should you have the chance to convert for storage, consider TIF (or TIFF)... lossless, unlike JPEG. PNG is also lossless.



It just means that when you edit a lossy file, like JPEG, it will have consequences on the quality. But edit a PNG or TIFF and no problems there.



However, most cameras can only shoot in JPEG. Almost all DSLRs allow raw (or RAW, both are the same as it does not stand for anything) files and some allow TIFs.



Raw is the more preferred options for professionals - not PNG, unlike what people can claim. You shoot in raw (the file extension differs for each maker: Canon uses .cr or .cr2, Nikon .nef, etc. - and there is also one by Adobe, trying to unify all raw formats; .dng, or digital negative) and then develop it in a raw processor, such as Lightroom, Camera Raw, etc. and then export it as either JPEG or TIFF. An edited raw photo will not have changed if you edit and save it - to retain edited changes, you have to save as either a JPEG or TIFF, depending on whether you want to further edit or not. TIFFs are a lot larger in size than JPEGs, which are compressed.

Answer 9

Lol these retards don't know anything. I'm a big picture person. JPG makes the picture blurry , and when you save it as JPG the quality worsens . GIF is used basically for moving pictures , if you save the picture as GIF you'll have a bunch of tiny holes in the picture. PNG is the answer, when you save it as PNG it saves clear perfect just as the picture was taken , it won't be blurry , it'll save like a professional picture.



PNG IT ;-D

Answer 10

Well GIF is something that gives you "Nice quality" and smaller file size images. JPEG will reduce the image quality resulting into smaller size though quality is really very bad.



Come to PNG then it produce "Best quality" and yet larger file size

Answer 11

I've never worked with PNG, but I've always found JPEG to be clearer and better developed than GIF.

Answer 12

I have yet to see a camera that saves in post network graphics, or gif. I'd say RAW, TIFF, and then JPG! But there are few new cameras that take TIFF, my 8 year old Kodak did!



Then again, I've not used every camera out there!

Answer 13

png offers better quality

Answer 14

Never tried PNG. So out of the former and second, GIF.

Answer 15

JPEG > PNG > GIF

Answer 16

JPEG im hearing is good.

Answer 17

PNG.

Answer 18

Experiment with them

Answer 19

JPEG

Answer 20

JPEG!

Answer 21

JPEG!!!!!!!!!!!!!