IMAGE FORMATS

BMP:
BMP or bitmap is a raster format .which is used pracically for all possible data storage. It is device independent that is it determines the pixels colour without reference to the display device and enables u to record images with varying quality levels.
The main asvantages of this format is its usability and wide software support.The compression algorithm used in BMP can be one of the RLE runlength encoding variants.However ,most files do not use compression.