You are most likely to use JPG and GIF.
File Format |
Colors |
Compression |
Best Used For |
|---|---|---|---|
JPG |
Millions |
Lossy |
Photographs |
GIF |
256 maximum |
Lossless |
Line art, images with large areas of solid color, animation, transparency |
PNG-8 |
256 maximum |
Lossless |
A substitute for non-animated GIFs, but can crash very early browsers |
PNG-24 |
Millions |
Lossless |
A substitute for non-animated GIFs, but can crash very early browsers. |
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