Photoshop Jargon: GIF87a and GIF89a

“GIF87a” is the bitmap graphics format originally created in 1987 by CompuServe as a standard for Internet images…

“GIF87a” is the bitmap graphics format originally created in 1987 by CompuServe as a standard for Internet images. “GIF89a” was created in 1989 to succeed GIF87a due to its ability to allow image transparency, progressive rendering and multi-image animations (making possible the animated GIF).

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