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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 loselesslossless PNG format givesis best qualitysuitable for editing picturespicture, butand forlossy storingformats lousylike formatsJGP shouldare bebest consideredfor duestorage tobecause of smaller file sizessize. [[Comparison_of_web_browsers#Image_format_support|OlderMany older browsers]] manydo not yet support the PNG file format. The [[Adam7_algorithm|Adam7]]-interlacing allows an early preview even when only a fewsmall percentpercentage of the data of the image has been transmitted.

===GIF===