Overview

Graphics Interchange Format’s short is “GIF.” GIF format image preservation is best if the image has up to 8 bits each color. We call this kind of image a bitmap. Photographs discovered on the internet are most often saved in this file type. Its mechanism for lossless compression lets the image quality to be maintained with the compression, thus users like it. The GIF format is applied through the coding process of gaming applications for the storage of low-color sprite databases.

Category

GIF is counted under Raster Image File.

Supported Apps

Google Drive both in iOS and Android

Adobe Illustrator, MS Windows Photo Viewer, and MS Windows Photos on Windows

Adobe Photoshop CC (Windows & MAC)

Developer

The CompuServe has introduced the file extension.

MIME Type

It has one MIME type- image/gif

Signature

GIF87a: 47 49 46 38 37 61

GIF89a: 47 49 46 38 39 61

It is a flexible file extension used by many apps. Users can view a GIF file using applications of Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and Google.

There are many third-party apps to view GIF files. Users can get help from free or paid tools.