- Paint programs create bitmap images made of pixels, where bitmap images are made up of individual pixels arranged in a grid. Higher pixel density means higher resolution, which is measured in dots per inch (DPI) or by the number of pixel rows and columns.
- Compression reduces the file size of images and affects download speed, with lossless compression maintaining all pixel data and lossy compression changing some pixels. The most common formats are BMP, TIFF, JPEG, GIF and PNG.