• A bitmap image format that was developed in 1987 by a team at CompuServe, led by Steve Wilhite. GIF has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability between many applications and operating systems. The format supports up to eight 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 GIF less suitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with color gradients, but it is well-suited for simpler images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color. ← Wikipedia

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