Image Formats

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An overview of image formats and their capabilities (see also file formats).

	BMP	GIF	JPG	PCX	PNG	TGA	TIFF
RGB	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Grayscale	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Indexed	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Alpha	No	Yes (1 bit)	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
RLE Compr.	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Lossy Compr.	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Lossless Compr.	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes