Definitions for "Image format"
Keywords:  tiff, jpeg, jpg, rgba, ivl
A term used to describe the organization of the pixel components in an image. IVL currently supports two formats: GL_LUMINANCE, which indicates that pixel values are stored as luminance (one-component) values, and GL_RGBA, which indicates that pixel values are stored as red, green, blue, and alpha (four-component) values.
the three most used image formats for photos are JPEG (.jpg), TIFF (.tif), and Bitmap (.bmp). JPEG and TIFF apply varying levels of compression to an image. Bitmap does not, and produces the largest files.
Form of image compression. Common Internet examples are GIF, JPEG (or JPG) and PNG