and JPEGs

If your image has many subtle shades of color, you will want to save it as a JPEG. JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group and is pronounced as "jay peg". Sometimes you will see JPEGs called JPGs--either way is correct. The file format is: .jpg

JPEGs are better for pictures with subtle shades, because JPEGs can use up to 16.7 million colors. GIFs can only use 256.

Maybe you're thinking "Why would I save any picture as a GIF, when a JPEG lets me use so much more color?". Well, for one thing: JPEGs don't save large solid areas of color very well--they will come out looking sort of spotted. And...

Gifs can be animated, jpegs can't. I got this little animation gif from: http://bestanimations.com

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