Format | GIF | J2K |
Company | Graphics Interchange Format | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
Description | GIF is limited to an 8-bit palette, or 256 colors. This makes the GIF format suitable for storing graphics with relatively few colors such as simple diagrams, shapes, logos and cartoon style images. The GIF format supports animation and is still widely used to provide image animation effects. It also uses a lossless compression that is more effective when large areas have a single color, and ineffective for detailed images or dithered images. | JPEG 2000 is a wavelet-based image compression standard. The aim of JPEG 2000 is not only improved compression performance over JPEG but also adding (or improving) features such as scalability and editability. |
Benefits | lossless | much smaller file size at equal quality than JPEG |
Drawbacks | 256 colors and large files | less popular, requires more computational resources |
Professional photo conversion and processing. | |
Used by photographers (amateur and professional), design studios, architects, large organizations (NASA, IBM, Chrysler, University hospitals). | |
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