Format | GIF | TARGA |
Company | Graphics Interchange Format | Truevision (now AVID) |
Description | GIF is limited to an 8-bit palette, or 256 colors. This makes the GIF format suitable for storing graphics with relatively few colors such as simple diagrams, shapes, logos and cartoon style images. The GIF format supports animation and is still widely used to provide image animation effects. It also uses a lossless compression that is more effective when large areas have a single color, and ineffective for detailed images or dithered images. | TARGA File Format, is a raster graphics file format. It was the native format of Truevision Inc.'s TARGA and VISTA boards, which were the first graphic cards for IBM-compatible PCs to support Highcolor/truecolor display. |
Benefits | lossless | Many games create screenshot files in TGA format. |
Drawbacks | 256 colors and large files | Uncompressed large files. Obsolete. |
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