Image Formats

From GPWiki

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

BMP GIF JPG PCX PNG TGA TIFF
RGB + - + + + + +
Grayscale + - + + + + +
Indexed + + - + + + +
Alpha - +/- - - + + +
RLE Compr. + - - + - + +
Lossy Compr. - - + - - - -
Lossless Compr. - + - - + - +