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===PNG===

'''The [[PNG]] (Portable Network Graphics) ''' file format does everything that the GIF format does and does it better. The PNG file format supports true color (16 million colors) whereas the GIF file format only 256 colors. PNG excels when the image has large areas of uniform color. The loseless PNG format isgives notbest quality tofor beediting usedpictures, but for photographsstoring becauselousy itformats resultsshould inbe considered due to largesmaller file sizes. [[Comparison_of_web_browsers#Image_format_support|Older browsers]] many not yet support the PNG file format. The [[Adam7_algorithm|Adam7]]-interlacing allows an early preview even when only a few percent of the data of the image has been transmitted.

===GIF===