Thursday, May 7, 2009

Good Article on Picture Formats

Recently after finding alot on internet about graphics and learning about them, i landed up in a website which has really good information.
Check this out:
http://www.web-articles.info/e/a/title/Popular-Graphics-Formats-GIF-JPEG-JPG-PNG-/

This article clearly explains all about picture formats.
I guess most of us are finding information on :-
" Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) " and i think this site successfully explains it really well!
The GIF graphics format is usually used to save icons, cartoons, logos etc....
The best thing about this gif format is that you can have animated pictures with this.
Gif is the second most popular format on net ( after jpeg, which is basically famous because of its reduced size as compared to traditional png )

Also the article clearly states many other picture formats and these uses.
This can be really very helpful to ALL web designers.
There are many free online sites which can help you out with gif animations ( if you want them on your website or something like that...)
the most popular is maybe http://www.gifanimations.com
(others are mentioned in the article)

There are many other formats available which are jpeg,png.
Png are popularly used when the image is quite small(many icon type...though you can also use gif for the same purpose)

hence to sum it up, go to the article, its really good and i found that website also quite usefull with lot of other articles as well.