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The BMP format: a little history

          The BMP format, more accurately referred to as windows bitmap, is a rather old image format

          that was originally developed and still mainly used in and for the windows operating systems.

          BMP is a very large format, and is therefore not recommended for world wide web purposes.

          It is, however, fully lossless, unlike JPEG, and supports a wide range of color depths,

          ranging from 8 to 24 bit. It does not use any type of compression, and therefore causes file sizes

          to be very large.

• 8 to 24-bit color depth precision. (256 to 16.7 million colors)

• No compression.

• Fully lossless.

• Line-by-line Pixel saving scheme.

 Image size 1,370KB