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When would a .GIF file be used?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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There are two primary considerations:

  • The image is for the web or computer display, rather than printing
  • The image is mostly sharp edges - text, graphs, buttons etc.
Printing uses different file formats and a different color system, and for Photography JPEG is better.

If you have a sharp-edged image for computer display, PNG is a more recent and normally better alternative than GIF. But there are cases where you would still prefer GIF:
  • For simple animation - a few still images displayed in sequence
  • When dealing with someone who needs GIF for historical reasons (ex. their image processing can't handle PNG properly)
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