Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a standard for displaying graphics on the World Wide Web and other online services. Because it compresses image data without losing detail, its compression method is called lossless. Such compression works well with graphics that use a limited number of solid colors such as logos and charts; however, GIF cannot display more than 256 colors. For this reason it is less effective for displaying photographs online (use JPEG instead) and is not recommended for commercial printing. If an imported GIF file contains transparency, the graphic interacts only where the background is transparent.