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GIF animation of an Apollonian sphere packing with transparent background. Transparency in computer graphics is possible in a number of file formats. The term "transparency" is used in various ways by different people, but at its simplest there is "full transparency" i.e. something that is completely invisible. Only part of a graphic should be ...
Screen capture of an interlaced GIF loading in a web browser. The GIF Specification allows each image within the logical screen of a GIF file to specify that it is interlaced; i.e., that the order of the raster lines in its data block is not sequential. This allows a partial display of the image that can be recognized before the full image is ...
The PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file format was created as a free, open-source alternative to GIF. The PNG file format supports 8-bit (256 colors) paletted images (with optional transparency for all palette colors) and 24-bit truecolor (16 million colors) or 48-bit truecolor with and without alpha channel – while GIF supports only 8-bit ...
WebP is a raster graphics file format developed by Google intended as a replacement for JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats. It supports both lossy and lossless compression, [8] as well as animation and alpha transparency. Google announced the WebP format in September 2010, and released the first stable version of its supporting library in April ...
The motivation for creating the PNG format was the announcement on 28 December 1994 that implementations of the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) format would have to pay royalties to Unisys due to their patent of the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) data compression algorithm used in GIF. [10] This led to a flurry of criticism from Usenet users.
The X Window System uses a similar XBM format for black-and-white images, and XPM (pixelmap) for color images. Numerous other uncompressed bitmap file formats are in use, though most not widely. [7] For most purposes, standardized compressed bitmap files such as GIF, PNG, TIFF, and JPEG are used.
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Format conversion: convert an image from one format to another (e.g. PNG to JPEG). Transform: resize, rotate, crop, flip or trim an image. (Applies these without generation loss on JPEG files, where possible.) Transparency: render portions of an image invisible. Draw: add shapes or text to an image. Decorate: add a border or frame to an image.