File Form

lossless
GIF Graphics Interchange Format Animation Standard
format for animation on the Internet.
Transparency yes
Most common:
Text
Clip art, animations, icons, logos
Simple diagrams, line drawings
Graphics with large blocks of a single color
Graphics with transparent areas
Images displayed on computer screens and on websites.

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JPEG- Animation No
Transparency No
Commonly Used For:
Desktop publishing photographs
Photographs and natural artwork
Scanned photographs
Emailing photographs

BMP- also known as bitmap image file or device independent bitmap file
format or simply a bitmap, is a raster graphics image file format used to store
bitmap digital images, independently of the display device, especially on
Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems.
Transparency No
Commonly Used For:
Editing raster graphics
Creating icons and wallpaper
On-screen display.

TIFF- a computer file format for storing raster graphics images,

popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and
both amateur and professional photographers in general.
Transparency No
Available in compressed and un-compressed formats
Compressed is advised
Commonly Used For:
Storage container for faxes and other digital images
To store raw bitmap data by some programs and devices such.

PNG- Portable Network Graphics) is a file format for image compression that,
in time, is expected to replace the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) that is
widely used on today's Internet.
Transparency yes
Not suited for photographs
Commonly Used For:
Replacing GIF and TIFF images
Online viewing of images.

AVI- Audio Video Interleave, is a multimedia container format

introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video
for Windows software. AVI files can contain both audio and
video data in a file container that allows synchronous
audio-with-video playback.
Transparency- No
Commonly used For: To display motion pictures or images with
the synchronous of audio feedback.