What is the difference between “JPG” / “JPEG” / “PNG” / “BMP” / “GIF” / “TIFF” Image?

Question

I have seen many types of image extensions but have never understood the real differences between them. Are there any links out there that clearly explain their differences?

Answer 1

What coobird and Gerald said.

Additionally, JPEG is the file format name. JPG is commonly used abbreviated file extension for this format, as you needed to have a 3-letter file extension for earlier Windows systems. Likewise with TIFF and TIF.

Web browsers at the moment only display JPEG, PNG and GIF files - so those are the ones that can be shown on web pages.