Pixel Art Contest

[YPrrrr]

bitmap is just a completely uncompressed, still, and opaque image. It is entirely worse than png, in that it does not support transparency, it is much larger file size, and it has the same exact quality.

[spoiler=Bluaki's tutorial on image formats]
[o]BMP usually is the highest filesize of all raster images. It supports any 24-bit colour (~17million colours), but no transparency. Technically, also supports 32-bit colour (4 billion colours), but it's impractical.
[o]PNG usually has higher filesize than JPG but less than BMP. It supports any 24-bit colour (17mil colours) and transparency/semitransparency. Technically, also supports up to 64-bit colour (8 pentillion or 2⁶⁴ colours) but it's impractical.
[o]JPG generally sucks for anything except for photographs or scanned papers, as it causes colour distortion. It fits between PNG and GIF in file size, usually.
[o]GIF has lower filesize than PNG, but it is limited to 256 opaque colours and 100% transparancy (no semitransparency).
[o]Vector images don't use pixels, but instead paths and curves. They have higher file size than any of the above formats, in general. Most common two are SVG and AI
[o]All other image formats aren't worth mentioning.[/spoiler]

What does TIF do

[Hensa]

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[bluaki]

What does TIF do

I think it's pretty much a container format that can hold information matching any of the things I listed. Along with additional layers and pages. I believe it's most oftenly used with scanning, faxing, and printing. I think it has pretty high file size compared to all the other fomats I listed. They sometimes cause compatibility issues since some programs can add features that other programs can't read to the file.
I'm not entirely sure though, since I've never used it.
Also, RAW is one other I didn't list. It's used as a raw lossless format with some digital cameras, used to prevent jpeg artefacts with images edited and saved several times. For cameras that do automatic modifications to images such as brightness or rotation, they often store the information about the modification itself in the raw without applying it to the image.
Or at least I think so. Again, this is one that I've never used.

[guff]

Why thank you, I learned more from you in a minute than I did in a whole semester of Image Compression Algorithms lol

if you didn't even learn that bitmaps are uncompressed then yeah i'd ask for a refund or maybe you're just stupid 

[Terran SCV]

if you didn't even learn that bitmaps are uncompressed then yeah i'd ask for a refund or maybe you're just stupid 

Maybe both 

my avatar
8 hours invested into this baby


I win

HOLY CARP. From scratch at that too, I suppose.
I'll wait for a couple more entrants and then I'll pick you as the WINRAR, even though it's inevitable 

[strongbad]

WINRAR

I prefer WinZip
[spoiler]actually i dont i just thought it was a whitty comment[/spoiler]