RGB

See also: YUV

RGB is a colour model used to represent images and video. RGB stands for the Red, Green and Blue components.

RGBA

RGBA supplements RGB with an alpha channel for transparency.

Further reading

• Wikipedia - List of color spaces and their uses
• FourCC.org - RGB pixel formats

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