The splash screens were made with a lot of secrets inside. You can see main features and advantages of every graphic format.

ReaJpeg splash

For example, at the ReaJpeg splash screen there are a small piece of paper with table of brightness and a book about the Huffman coding method. Truecolor is 16,777,216 colors.

 ReaGIF splash

Gif was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 (you can see a calendar), GIF 89a is an enhanced version of format. GIF images are compressed using the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) method (see the book on a table). GIF supports an animation. It uses indexed color palette and 1-bit transparency (you may see a piece of paper with a rectangual cut)

ReaTiff splash 

Tiff is very universal format. It is capable to keep several images in one document. The images can be bitmaps or line art. For right recognition of similar elements you should have the list of the tags, describing the data inside the file (the name Tagged Image File Format comes from here). Tiff was created for use with PostScript printing. 

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