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GIF file format
File extension
.gif
File category
Description
GIF – is one of the most popular formats on the World Wide Web, allowing you to share images. It supports various animations, including its transparent views. Such files are used for the development of web advertising with sequentially changing pictures, as well as the graphics shell of video files. They use scan-line images with the depth parameters up to 256 shades of the RGB palette. The process of compressing files in GIF does not affect the quality in any way, as there is no loss. Due to this, it is possible to convert to other formats while preserving the original image properties.
The extension is opened by many applications for viewing and processing images and video content installed on PCs and mobile devices regardless of OS.
Technical details
The format was developed by Compuserve specialists specially for its use in the web environment, which provided wide public access to data on such files. The extension uses the LZW algorithm that allows to carry out a process, in parallel with the removal of segments containing insufficient information. This ensures the preservation of high quality pictures. Thanks to the Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm, the format handles graphic files with repeating sections well, in particular, images with a large number of single-color pixels horizontally. Interlaced data storage is also possible.
Scan-line data is compressed to the smallest size. Reducing the number of colors required to create an image is provided by removing shades unnecessary to perform this process. The range of available GIF colors is from 2 (black and white) to 256, while reducing the number of colors leads to a decrease in the file size.
Programs
Adobe Photoshop
Apple Preview
Corel Paint Shop Pro
Microsoft Windows Photo Gallery Viewer
Developer
CompuServe
MIME type
image/gif
gif converter
gif to bmp
gif to cur
gif to gif
gif to ico
gif to jpeg
gif to mng
gif to pcx
gif to png
gif to pnm
gif to ppm
gif to psd
gif to svg
gif to tga
gif to tiff
gif to wbpm
gif to html
gif to pdf
gif to doc
gif to docx
gif to dxf
gif to eps
gif to wmf
gif to jpg
gif to ai
gif to mp3
gif to mp4
gif to 3gp
gif to avi
gif to flv
gif to m4v
gif to mov
gif to swf
gif to webm
gif to wmv
gif to ogv
gif to mpg
gif to mpeg
gif to tif
gif to webp
gif converter
arw to gif
bmp to gif
cur to gif
emf to gif
ico to gif
jpeg to gif
mng to gif
pcx to gif
pes to gif
png to gif
pnm to gif
psd to gif
sfw to gif
tga to gif
tiff to gif
wpg to gif
xcf to gif
pdf to gif
dxf to gif
eps to gif
pcd to gif
pct to gif
wmf to gif
ppt to gif
jpg to gif
mp4 to gif
avi to gif
tif to gif
heic to gif