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AV1F Image File Format an open, royalty-free image file format specification for storing images or image sequences compressed with AV1 in the HEIF container format.[1][2] It competes with HEIC, which uses the same container format built upon ISOBMFF, but HEVC for compression. Version 1.0.0 of the AVIF specification was finalized in February 2019.

BMP Bitmap Image File is a format developed by Microsoft for Windows. There is no compression or information loss with BMP files which allow images to have very high quality, but also very large file sizes. Due to BMP being a proprietary format, it is generally deprecated in favor of TIFF files.

GIF "JIFF" Graphics Interchange Format files are widely used for web graphics, because they are limited to only 256 colors, can allow for transparency, and can be animated. GIF files are typically small in size and are very portable.

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality.

PNG Portable Network Graphics files are a lossless image format originally designed to improve upon and replace the gif format. PNG files are able to handle up to 16 million colors, unlike the 256 colors supported by GIF.

SVG Scalable Vector Graphics and is an XML based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics. It can be searched, indexed, scaled and compressed and can result in smaller file sizes than other file formats, which makes it ideal for web.

TIFF Tagged Image File Format are lossless images files meaning that they will not lose any image quality or information although there are options for compression, allowing for very high-quality images but also larger file sizes.

WebP "Weppy" a raster graphics file format developed by Google intended as a replacement for JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats. It supports both lossy and lossless compression, as well as animation and alpha transparency.

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