The Graphics Interchange Format better known by its acronym GIF, is a bitmap image format that was developed by US-based software writer Steve Wilhite while working at CompuServe on June 15, 1987
The format supports up to 8 bits per pixel for each image, allowing a single image to reference its own palette of up to 256 different colors chosen from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of up to 256 colors for each frame. These palette limitations make the GIF format less suitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with continuous color, but it is well-suited for simpler images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color.
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Apple's newest iPhone software attempts to move the world out of the JPEG era.
To that end, it announced this month at its WWDC programmer conference that it's endowing its iPhones, iPads and Macs with support for a new photo-storing technology called HEIF, short for High Efficiency Image Format. HEIF needs only half the storage space as a JPEG photo of the same quality.
Q: I know how to say "JPEG." How do I pronounce HEIF? It hasn't made it to the dictionary yet. Everybody at Apple pronounces it "heef," but my Twitter followers disagree. Heef, hife, hey-f, heff -- we could be looking at another internet culture war like the dispute over hard G vs. soft G when saying "GIF." You've been warned.
To further complicate this issue, I noticed that the actual HEIF filename extension is called myphoto.heic
" Will I start seeing files with names like "myphoto.heif" now? Curve ball! At least for now, you'll see myphoto.heic. Yes, that's HEIC, not HEIF. If you're curious why, it's because HEIF can accommodate imagery created with a variety of technologies -- including JPEG and HEVC today and whatever shiny new compression technology might arrive in 2025. The .heic filename extension, which is the only one Apple will produce for photos, indicates it went through the HEVC encoder."
