GIF vs PSD
Een uitgebreide vergelijking van GIF Image en Adobe Photoshop Document — bestandsgrootte, kwaliteit, compatibiliteit en welk formaat het beste past bij jouw workflow.
GIF Image
Raster & Vector ImagesGIF supports animation and transparency with a 256-color palette. While limited in color depth, it remains the most universally supported animated image format across platforms and messaging apps.
Over GIF-bestandenAdobe Photoshop Document
Raster & Vector ImagesPSD is the native file format for Adobe Photoshop, storing layered image data, masks, color spaces, and editing metadata. Converting PSD flattens layers into a single composite image.
Over PSD-bestandenVergelijking van sterke punten
GIF Sterke punten
- Universal animation support — every browser, every chat app, every social network.
- Transparent backgrounds for compositing against any page color.
- Lossless for its limited palette — pixel-perfect at 256 colors.
- Self-contained: no codec, no browser plugin, no third-party player needed.
PSD Sterke punten
- Preserves every Photoshop feature: layers, masks, adjustments, smart objects, text, effects, styles.
- Backward-compatible — files from 1990 still open in modern Photoshop.
- Industry-standard handoff format between designers, agencies, and prepress.
- Supports 32-bit HDR, CMYK, Lab, Duotone, and spot colors for professional print work.
- Rich metadata, color profiles, and printing instructions survive round-trips.
Beperkingen
GIF Beperkingen
- Limited to 256 colors per frame — looks posterized on photographs.
- Dithering for color-rich images makes files huge (often 10× an MP4 equivalent).
- No audio track.
- Transparency is 1-bit (on/off) — no smooth alpha blending.
- Poor compression compared to modern formats (WebP, MP4, AVIF).
PSD Beperkingen
- Proprietary — full fidelity only in Adobe tools; other apps approximate.
- File sizes are enormous (hundreds of MB is common for complex documents).
- Not a web format — browsers cannot display PSD natively.
- Binary structure is complex and version-dependent; parsers often lag the latest Photoshop version.
- Hard 2 GB / 30 000 px limit forces professionals to switch to .psb for large artwork.
Technische specificaties
| Specificatie | GIF | PSD |
|---|---|---|
| MIME type | image/gif | image/vnd.adobe.photoshop |
| Compression | LZW (lossless, patent expired 2004) | — |
| Color depth | 8-bit indexed (256 colors per frame) | — |
| Transparency | 1-bit (on/off) | — |
| Animation | Supported natively | — |
| Max dimensions | 65,535 × 65,535 per frame | 30 000 × 30 000 px (PSD); 300 000 × 300 000 (PSB) |
| Max file size | — | 2 GB (PSD); 4 EB (PSB) |
| Color modes | — | Bitmap, Grayscale, Duotone, Indexed, RGB, CMYK, Lab, Multichannel |
| Bit depths | — | 1, 8, 16, 32 bits per channel |
Typische bestandsgroottes
GIF
- Short reaction meme (2s loop) 500 KB – 2 MB
- Screen recording demo (10s) 3–15 MB
- Static transparent icon 2–20 KB
PSD
- Simple 2-layer logo 500 KB - 3 MB
- Website mockup with 20 layers 20-80 MB
- Magazine spread with hi-res photos 150-500 MB
- Matte painting / CGI composite 1-4 GB
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