Png Image Format Vs Bmp. Compressed the png was 100kb and the bmp was 18kb. Png stands for portable network graphics.
When to use tiff. Bmp bitmap the native. Gif is an acronym for graphics interchange format while bmp is short for bitmap image file or device independent bitmap.
Png files are also lossless files retaining color information when they are compressed.
In digital imaging two image formats prevail above all else. Thus with a lossless format the only visible difference is the file size. It was created as an improved and non patented replacement for graphics interchange format gif. In this format images are rendered pixel by pixel which are put together to form an image.
