About GIF and JPG, help?

Question

I am entering a contest, and it says it must be in GIF or JPG, what does that mean?
Also, it says it must be less than 200K, but all I see is KB.
Can someone help?

Answer 1

You're getting a lot of answers that are either bad or missing enough detail to be useful.



GIF is a file format that is limited to 256 colors. For this reason, it is not suitable for photographic images. But some rare photos will do remarkably well in the GIF format as far as image quality goes. But this is the rare case. I have seen only one photo that converted to GIF with no loss of quality, and it was a photo of a subject with little color variation. The GIF format really shines when it is used for line art and logos with limited color. The less colors you allow in the image, the smaller the file.



JPG is a "lossy" compressed format. It takes advantage to the limitations of the human eye by throwing our details that we simply do not see. It is ideal for photographic images because it has a color depth of 16.7 million. It is called "lossy" because of the details (and sometimes quality) that is lost when saving to this format. The more more your compress when saving to JPG, the smaller the file becomes, but also the more detail gets thrown out. At some point, the file that is output will have noticeable squares along lines of contrast. These jagged areas are called "JPG artifacts".



If the image you are creating is line art, save as GIF with the least number of colors that does not cause a color shift from the original. If it is photographic, save it with the highest level of compression that keeps it below the file size limit.

Answer 2

GIF and JPG are image file formats. And 200K means the same as 200KB. I guess if you are creating an image you should be able to "save as" or something and change the file type and make sure it is GIF or JPG. If it is a photograph it should already be a JPG but you can check by right-clicking on the file and looking at "type of file."

Answer 3

GIF and JPEG are image files. I'm assuming the contest is in some form of art (photography, illustration ...). Programs like photoshop allow you to save files in different formats, and GIFs and JPGs are 2 of the more popular file types.



K and KB mean the same thing, "kilobytes"!

1024 KB make up 1 MB.



Hope this helps!

Answer 4

You can have the same picture in either format. GIF is larger and better quality than JPG. So if you properties reads more than 200K, you should change and save to JPG. When you do, don't leave the same name or it will over wright. Just add a capital A, B, C etc. and then you have both. If you don't have enough hard drive space, then over wright.

Answer 5

GIF (Graphics Interchange) and JPG (Short for JPEG which is Joint Photographic Experts Group) are files. When you save a file below where you type the name it says save as (file names). Also 200k stands for the file size. Kb and K are the same thing.

Answer 6

GIF AND JPG are two programs for pictures you probably have jpg it would show up when you save the picture in the file type. 200k is 200kb and is a very low resolution picture but able to fit many pictures in a small bandwidth.

Answer 7

Gif and Jpg are picture and image formats you can animate them. and 200k is 220 kb same thing . they are regulating the size of the contest images that are entered

Answer 8

There is not much else that can really be said to help you out.

Here is a link to a free image editing program (Gimp).

Click on the download to get the program.

Open you picture in Gimp and then save as.

You can select the the file type by extension when the save window appears.

You will also have the opportunity to reduce the quality of the image to help save on space.



Re-sizing your image will also help you to save on space.



Image -> Image Properties gives you the file size of an image as well as the existing filetype.



I hope this helps.

Answer 9

GIF is an ancient format that dithers the image to 256 colors (to make it smaller)



JPG is the most common and loses quality to make it smaller and as long as your file is below 200KB it should be fine for either one

Answer 10

it means that all the multimedia files which ur using should be in GIF or JPG format that means GIFstands for graphical interchange file format and JPG for joint photogarphic expert group

these standards make the file size smaller so that u can easily transfer them over the network

Answer 11

You can consider K as KB someone is just being lazy (or expecting you to know).



GIF is essentially a very basic picture format to keep sizes small, you often see them animated on websites as this allows them to load quickly. They are heavily compressed so you lose a lot of colours and quality.



JPG is what I would use for a single image, it retains quality and colours but can still compress the file to the sort of size you require.

Answer 12

u have to just download Pixxilion from www.nch.au.com and convert ur image...

and yes GIF and JPG are just different image formats and 200KB is its size