File formats

Image file formats are standardized means of organizing and storing digital images. 

Joint Photographic Experts Group, also known as JPEG, is an image file format suitable for web use. The most common image format for digital cameras and other photographic image capture devices, JPEG uses a method named lossy compression that can be adjusted, allowing a selectable trade-off between storage size and image quality. Strengths for using the JPEG file format include its fast compression speed and the compressed image size and quality trade-off being user determined. However, JPEG isn't a suitable strategy for images that are still in the process of being edited and is not intended for moving image.

Another image file format is Portable Network Graphics, or PNG. A bitmapped image format, PNG employs losless data compression, meaning that the exact original data can be constructed from the compressed data. Strengths for using the PNG file format include its variable transparency and control of image brightness.

BMP, also known as bitmap, is another image file format suitable for web use. BMP is used to store bitmap digital images, especially on Microsoft windows other operating systems. Strengths for using the BMP file format include that files are easily created from existing pixel data in an array in memory, aswell as pixel values being able to be modified individually or as large groups if a palette is present. On the other hand, BMP files can be very large in size and typically don't scale very well. 

Scalable Vector Graphics, commonly know as SVG, is a family of an XML-based file format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics.